A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

There is a TIME for everything
With allusion to ECCLESIASTES iii. 1 (AV) To every thing there is a season.

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  c 1390 CHAUCER Clerk’s Prologue 1. 6 But Salomon seith ‘every thyng hath tyme’. 1540 CRANMER Bible (Prologue) +3 Ther is tyme for euery thynge. 1590 SHAKESPEARE Comedy of Errors II. ii. 63 Well, sir, learn to jest in good time; there’s time for all things. 1818 J. AUSTEN Northanger Abbey xxx. Your head runs too much upon Bath; but there is a time for every thing—a time for balls.. and a time for work.
  

1980 ‘M. INNES’ Going It Alone I. x. There is a time for everything, and he hoped that, in the present exigency, Tim wasn’t going to be.. frivolous. ■ opportunity; time
TIME is a great healer
There are numerous expressions derived from the ancient concept that time heals, several of which are illustrated here. Predominantly used in the context of feelings and emotions rather than physical suffering. Cf. MENANDER Fragments dclxxvii. (Kock) (отрос kokwv time is the healer of all necessary evils.

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  c 1385 CHAUCER Troilus & Criseyde v. 350 As tyme hem [them] hurt, a tyme doth hem cure. 1591 J. HARINGTON tr. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso VI. ii. He hurt the wound which time perhaps had healed, weening [thinking] with greater sinne the lesse to mend. 1622 H. PEACHAM Complete Gentleman iv. Time, the Phisition of all. 1837 DISRAELI Henrietta Temple III. VI. ix. Time is the great physician. 1926 G. B. SHAW Translations & Tomfooleries 60 Time is the great healer. 1942 A. CHRISTIE Body in Library viii. He had a terrible shock and loss. .. But Time, as my dear mother used to say, is a great healer. 2001 Washington Times 23 Sept. C17 Time is the greatest of healers, and during the next few weeks, sports again will provide us with a much-needed respite from our everyday worries. "time