A Quote by Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies). — © Ovid
Tempus fugit (time flies).

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Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.
Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?” Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbye and it’s like no time passed at all?” His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.” “With you,” she added.
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?
On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable signs. From that time on, I think, dates my obsession with flies. In times of peace, when we all lied still, I made sure to sneak close up to my mother, watching very carefully that no fly would land on her, - I waved my hat over her body, flies don't like wind and movement.
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.
I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
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