Subject: Time (Page 19)

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years… before we met.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Father’s Day: The annual day in June set aside so merchants can get rid of their leftover Christmas ties and shaving lotion.

Do you know it was a year ago today?

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

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

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Everything goes wrong all at once.

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last.

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs.  You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them.  Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve.  No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

American baseball player

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

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

If you’ve only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs… it’ll seem like forever.

hockey announcer

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

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

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist