Subject: Time (Page 19)

Everything costs more and takes longer.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Housework Things Time Work

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Situations Time Work

Absolutum obsoletum – If it works, it’s out of date.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Time

How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

Time

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
People Time

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Murphy’s Laws Time Work

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

typographer
Activities Situations Sleep Time

Historians: People who won’t let bygones be bygones.

Definitions History Occupations Time

The hands on my biological clock are giving me the finger.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian
Age People Self Time

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor
People Success Time

I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Time Yogi-isms

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player
Misspokements Past Time

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

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor
Conflict Parents Relationships Time

When I was a Republican, Saddam Hussein was our ally, George Bush owned a mediocre baseball team, Enron was a respected energy company and Michael Jackson was still black.

(1950 – ) Greek American author, columnist & website co-founder
Past People Self Time

Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock; after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20.

American choral conductor, director, teacher & radio host
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Time

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.

cartoon character, Peanuts (Charles Schulz, 1922 – 2000) creator & cartoonist
Life Time

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Baseball Sports Time

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering… and it’s all over much too soon.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Death Emotions Life Time