Ovid Fleeting Quotations

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.