I can't even believe that another year has gone by. Just yesterday it was 2008- Oh yeah, it was yesterday. The saying goes that "Time flies when your having fun," I am not sure if that i
s completely true because it flies when I'm cleaning my house, it flies when I'm doing laundry and making the beds. It flies by when I'm watching my kids grow, it flies by when I am looking for just 5 more minutes in my day. If I wanted it to stand still I would watch water boil, look at paint drying, watch the snow melt....While we dawdle, our lives pass swiftly.
The proverb has been traced back in English to 1386 in Chaucer's 'Prologue to the Clerk's Tale.' The earliest American appearance in print is 1710 in 'Mayflower Descendant.' The idea was first expressed by Virgil (70-19 B.C.), who wrote in the 'Aeneid': Fugit inreparabile tempus' (Time is flying never to return)..."
From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman.
