Time and Again...

With Daylight Saving Time just beginning for some of us, who can help but think about time? But, how does the idea of time appear in literature? In fairy tales, you may read: "Once upon a time..." In other works, you may discover how time passes, how it stands still, how time can seem to "fly" when one is reading, or how characters travel through time. Read more about time:

• Now - Robert Browning
• Time Long Past - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• Books About "The Time Machine"

What are your thoughts on time? Here are a few quotes about time, from famous writers:

• "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance." -- M. I. Abramowitz
  
  
• "You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." -- Mortimer Adler
  
  
• "Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future." -- James Alonzo Bishop
  
  
• "My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?" -- Lord Byron
  
  
• "There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things." -- Miguel de Cervantes
  
  
• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." -- Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
  
  
• "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." -- Emily Dickinson
  
  
• "There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
• "This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• "Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not; this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?" -- William Hazlitt
  
  
• "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave." -- Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• "It's time to start living the life you've imagined." -- Henry James
  
  
• "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." -- Carl Sandburg
  
  
• "All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts." -- William Shakespeare
  
  
• "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." -- Socrates
  
  
• "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." -- Sir Rabindranath Tagore
  
  

What does time mean to you?