Subject: Time (Page 22)

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I didn’t think prohibition would last that long.

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

Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

My secret to staying young… having no sense of time.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I love deadlines; I especially like the whooshing sound they make when they go flying by.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

First Things First, but not necessarily in that order.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

I couldn’t care less about all those fiction stories about what happened in the year 1500 or 1600. Half of them aren’t even true.

professional golfer

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

(1918 – 2009) radio broadcaster

Seems like only a year ago they were married nine years!

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

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

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor

That’s history; I say history because it happened in the past.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Only at the start/re-start of a DIY job do you realise the need to return to your toolbox/shed to retrieve another tool.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

(1863 – 1952) Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet & novelist

Whenever I think about the past, it just brings back so many memories.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Yoga is basically spending an entire hour trying to not fart.

(1982 – ) American actress & comedian