A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

There is a TIME and place for everything
An expanded version of there is a TIME for everything.

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  1509 A. BARCLAY Ship of Fools 94 Remember: there is tyme and place for euery thynge. 1862 G. BORROW Wild Wales II. x. There is a time and place for everything, and sometimes the warmest admirer of ale would prefer the lymph of the hill-side fountain to the choicest ale. 1986 ‘C. AIRD’ Dead Liberty iv. A memory from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to do with Snout serving the office of a wall welled up in Sloan’s mind, but he suppressed it instantly. There was a time and a place for everything. ■ opportunity; orderliness; time
  

TIME and tide wait for no man

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  c 1390 CHAUCER Clerk’s Tale 1.118 For thogh we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nil no [will no] man abyde. a 1520 Everyman (1961) 1.143 The Tyde abydeth no man. 1592 R. GREENE Disputation between He Cony-catcher & She Cony-catcher X. 241 Tyde nor time tarrieth no man. 1639 J. CLARKE Paramiologia Anglo-Latina 233 Time and tide tary on no man. 1767 ‘A. BARTON’ Disappointment II. i. Let’s step into the state-room, and turn in: Time and tide waits for no one. 1822 SCOTT Nigel III. ii. Come, come, master, let us get afloat. .. Time and tide wait for no man. 2002 Washington Post 10 Mar. SC11 (Family Circus comic strip) Time and tide wait for no man. ‘And a school bus waits for no boy.’ ■ opportunity; time
  

TIME flies
Cf. L. tempus fugit, time flies.

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  c 1390 CHAUCER Clerk’s Tale 1. 118 For though we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme. 1639 J. CLARKE Paramiologia Anglo-Latina 308 Time flyeth away without delay. 1776 J. W. FLETCHER Letter 21 Mar. in Works (1803) IX. 197 Time flies! Years of plenty.. disappear before the eternity to which we are all hastening. 2002 Washington Post 29 Mar. C9 (Classic Peanuts comic strip)’Quick, Marcie, I need the answer to the third question!’ ‘There is no third question, sir.. we did that test last week. ..’’Time flies when you’re having fun.’ "time