Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.
Book VI (1668), fable 21.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”
The Angelic Angleworm (p. 70)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
"Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).
The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)
“Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
Context: My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
No known citation to Marx. First appears unattributed in mid-1960s logic/computing texts as an example of the difficulty of machine parsing of ambiguous statements. Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=firefox-a&lr=&as_brr=0&q=%22fruit-flies%22+%22time+flies%22+banana&btnG=Search+Books&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1900&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1970. The Yale Book of Quotations dates the attribution to Marx to a 9 July 1982 net.jokes post on Usenet.
Misattributed
