A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

TIME is money
Gr. г?- ttii/jV,' .. i? , iv.r rr-v /7>r-Vi-v. the most costly outlay is time (attributed to Antiphon).
□1572 T. WILSON Discourse upon Usury 33 They saye tyme is precious. 1748 B. FRANKLIN Papers (1961) III. 306 Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day.. and.. sits idle one half of that Day.. has really.. thrown away Five Shillings. 1840 BULWER-LYTTON Money III. vi. ‘You don’t come often to the club, Stout?’.. ‘No, time is money.’ 1980 H. R. F. KEATING Murder of Maharajah xv. I can’t wait here day after day. .. Time’s money, you know. 2002 Washington Times 2 Feb. All When a quarterback is chosen as the Most Valuable Player in the National Football League for the second time in three years, time is money. He can rake in big bucks for appearing in ads, and he can also do his bit for charity by appearing in a United Way commercial. ■ efficiency and inefficiency; time
Man fears TIME, but time fears the pyramids
Arab proverb. The ‘learned Arab of the twelfth century’ (quot. 1923). has not been identified.

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  1876 E. RECLUS et al. Earth and Its Inhabitants 401 ‘All things fear time,’ says the Arab proverb, ‘but time fears the pyramids. 1923 G. CAROTTI History of Art 9 It was a learned Arab of the twelfth century who said: ‘The whole world fears time, but time fears the Pyramids.’ 1926 A. F. TOULBA Ceylon, Land of Eternal Charm 228 Here also, as in my own country, can we aptly apply the familiar saying ‘Man fears Time, but Time fears the Pyramids.’ 1983 Times 19 Feb. (online) Khufu, first Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty.. built a tomb that should remain for all time. It is written that ‘Man fears Time, but Time fears the Pyramids.’ 2006 Register (www.theregister.co.uk) 26 Dec. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the sole survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World. An Arab proverb says that: ‘Man fears time, yet time fears the Pyramids’, a reference to the fact that the pyramid has survived for about 4,500 years. “time