Subject: Time

Tomorrow: What always comes but never arrives.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another.

(1887 – 1915) English poet

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

Remember, today could just as easily be the LAST day of the rest of your life.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

(1924 – 1997) Dutch-American artist

Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Time wounds all heels.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

History: An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If a man smiles all the time he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.

Whenever you decide to take the kids home, it is always five minutes earlier that they break into fights, tears, or hysteria.