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Quotes about Time — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes about time, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Time waits for no one

   — Proverb

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2. 4

   Strike while the iron is hot

   — Proverb

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3. 8

   Flowing water never returns

   — Traditional

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4. 16

   Fifty years in a blink

   — Proverb

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5. 32

   Truth is the daughter of time

   — Latin proverb

   Original · LatinVeritas filia temporis.

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6. 64

   Waste of time is the greatest waste

   — Seneca

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7. 128

   Time is like a river that sweeps all away

   — Marcus Aurelius

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8. 256

   Life is short, art is long

   — Hippocrates

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9. 512

   An inch of time beats a foot of jade

   — Huainanzi

   Original · Classical Chinese聖人不貴尺之璧，而重寸之陰

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10. 1024

    Time keeps a different pace for each

    — Shakespeare

    Original · EnglishTime travels in divers paces with divers persons

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    Lost time is never found again

    — Benjamin Franklin

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    Time, the devourer of all things

    — Ovid

    Original · LatinTempus edax rerum.

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14. 8192

    Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of

    — Benjamin Franklin

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15. 16384

    Time is a child at play

    — Heraclitus

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16. 32768

    Ground I may recover; time, never

    — Napoleon

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17. 65536

    Time shows the hidden, hides the shown

    — Sophocles

    Original · Ancient Greekφύει τ' ἄδηλα καὶ φανέντα κρύπτεται

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18. 131072

    Life is a white horse past a gap

    — Zhuangzi

    Original · Classical Chinese人生天地之間，若白駒之過郤

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