The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (560 page)

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, the most costly outlay is time (attributed to Antiphon).
1572
Discourse upon Usury
33
They saye tyme is precious.
1748
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
Money
III. vi.
‘You don't come often to the club, Stout?’.. ‘No, time is money.’
1980
Murder of Maharajah
xv.
I can't wait here day after day … Time's money, you know.
1996
Washington Post
16 Aug. A31
Time is money, and money is congealed time—the time it takes to earn it.
efficiency and inefficiency
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time
No TIME like the present
1562
Accidence of Armoury
225
V
Mary [to be sure] sir no time better then euen now.
1696
Lost Lover
IV
. i.
No time like the present.
1888
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.
1982
Death turns Trick
viii.
No time like the present. Come on, get it over with.
opportunity
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time

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