From Paris Qui Souffre by Adolphe Guillot, 1887.

From Causeries avec Mes Élèves by Lambert Sauveur, 1875.

Mother Earth beseeches Father Time to spare her another year, from The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909.

To "have a good innings" is to have enjoyed a fulfilling life before the cricket match of life is over.  From Death's Doings, illustrated by Richard Dagley, 1827.

"And while Time his scythe is whetting, ere the dew from the grass has gone …"  From A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden by Walter Crane. 1899.

"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."  From The Life and Literary Works of Michel Angelo Buonarroti by Richard Duppa, 1806.

"The work of Time" from The Doctor's Family by Jules Marie Alfred Giradin, 1884.

From Leslie's Fate; and Hilda, or the Ghost of Erminstein by Andrew Charles Parker Haggard, 1892.

Here is revealed one of our secrets of time bending — bribing Father Time with New-Year Caraway Cakes, the recipe of which appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1910, p. 285.

Time travel is possible because Father Time's soap bubbles of the years linger.  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.  [In honor of Marja Lingsma's photos [a & b] of her parents blowing bubbles.]

"Why shouldn't I tell you the whole truth?  I really hope that one day I'll be able to see Time itself.  Not actually there on the face of the watch of course.  But one day I do hope to see how to see Time.  It'd be a discovery with quite unpredictable consequences." —Ernst Kreuder, The Attic Pretenders