Subject: Time (Page 14)

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

Cheese – milk's leap toward immortality.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

Ain’t nobody out at that time a night but burglars and bad women.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

(1886 – 1973) Israeli prime minister

Tell him I’ve been too f**king busy – or vice versa.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.

(1930 – 1978) American comedian

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse.

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

Howard: It was an hour ago, Sheldon. A Jew sits in front of a house in Texas for that long, for sale signs start to go up.

(1980 – ) American actor, comedian & musician

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

(1913 – 1973) American animator & cartoonist (Pogo)

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

Punctuality: The art of arriving for an appointment just in time to be indignant at the tardiness of the other party.

It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong.

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist