A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

No TIME like the present

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  1562 G. LEGH Accidence of Armoury 225V Mary [to be sure] sir no time better then euen now. 1696 M. MANLEY Lost Lover IV. i. No time like the present. 1888 M. OLIPHANT Second Son I. iv. ‘If you were a-passing this way, sir, some time in the morning—.’ ‘There’s no time like the present,’ answered Roger. 2000 ‘G. WILLIAMS’ Dr. Mortimer and Aldgate Mystery (2001) i. 7 ‘.. I was thinking in terms of an immediate start..’ ‘Oh, capital!’ the doctor exclaimed. .. ‘No time like the present, hey?’ ■ opportunity; time
  

TIME will tell
Cf. MENANDER Monosticha 11 H ~t'm />wrc. time brings the
truth to light.

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  1539 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages 37 Tempus omnia reuelat. Tyme discloseth all thynges. 1616 T. DRAXE Adages 205 Time reuealeth all things. 1771 C. STUART Letter 15 Apr. in Publications of Mississippi Hist. Society (1925) V. 50 Time only will shew how far those Informations have been well founded. 1863 C. READE Hard Cash I. vi. I will answer.. that she will speak as distinctly to music as you do in conversation—Time will show, madam. 1913 E. H. PORTER Pollyanna xxiii. The doctor had looked very grave.. and had said that time alone could tell. 1929 ‘J. J. CONNING­TON’ Eye in Museum xiv. ‘I’m not.. bringing any charge.’..’Oh.. a bright idea, perhaps. Or perhaps not so bright.’ ‘Time will tell,’ the Superintendent retorted. 2002 New
  

Scientist 30 Mar. 7 ‘But if you look at the general principles, it’s a wonderful system,’ says Richard Mulligan.. ‘Time will tell.’ "future; time
TIME works wonders

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  1588 A. MARTEN Exhortation to defend Country F2 You..thinke that time will worke wonders, though you your selves follow your owne pleasures. 1815 BYRON Letter 7 Jan. (1975) IV. 252 Time does wonders. 1845 D. W. JERROLD (title) Time works wonders. 1872 G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE Satanella II. xxiv. ‘I want you to like me.’.. ‘They say time works wonders.. and I feel I shall.’ 1982 R. DAVIES Rebel Angels 4 But there was time, and I was to be in his outer room, constantly under his eye. Time works wonders. "time
  

time see also there is always a FIRST time; NEVER is a long time; OTHER times, other manners; PARSLEY seed goes nine times to the Devil; PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time; one STEP at a time; a STITCH in time saves nine; THIRD time lucky; the THIRD time pays for all; WORK expands so as to fill the time available.