“Time flies when you are anxious!”
Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome (2009)
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Maria Bamford18
American actress and comedian 1970Related quotes
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) American novelist, short story author
The Angelic Angleworm (p. 70)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
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. <br class="br">Misattributed
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“On the wings of Time grief flies away.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
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.
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
“Time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Dark Eyes
