Francis Bacon Quotes on Time
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Time, which is the author of authors.
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Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. [The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.] These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.