Subject: Time (Page 11)

Just give me a shave… I haven’t time to listen to a haircut.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

These are the days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse – as a man shoots himself.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?

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

Faster than a dog's tail in a meat market.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

cartoon character, Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist

There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.

I took a course in speed waiting… now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.


Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Never make predictions… especially about the future.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?

(1965 – ) English comedian, musician, actor & author

I intend to live forever – so far, so good.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer