Subject: Time

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

This evening is a very different evening from the morning we had this morning.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Good Old Days: What people fifty years hence will be calling the present time.

History is more or less bunk.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

The amount of sleep needed by the average person is five minutes more.

typographer

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

So what if I can’t spell Armaggedon? … it’s not the end of the world.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they’re early, so naturally you’re not ready.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I Xeroxed my watch… now I have time to spare.


Shirley Temple had charisma as a child… but it cleared up as an adult.

(1930 – 1978) American comedian

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Time: The arbitrary division of eternity.

I didn’t think prohibition would last that long.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

I love my Fed-Ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it…and he's always on time.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years; it lasted forty-three years.

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor

He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

(1898 – 1978) Israeli prime minister

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.

(1770 – 1831) German philosopher