Subject: Time (Page 24)

No matter how long it takes for you to get back to pick up the shoes the shoemaker will tell you that they won't be ready until tomorrow.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

(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

Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?

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

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

(1897 – 1982) French writer

Retirement: The time of life when you stop lying about your age and start lying about the house.

How long a minute is, depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on.

He who hesitates is poor.

(1926 – ) film director, screenwriter, composer, comedian, actor & producer

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

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

The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Norm: I wish I had time for a hobby.
Cliff: Norm, you’ve got time to make your own coal.

(1947 – ) American actor & entrepreneur

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

(1907 – 2000) Canadian poet & critic

I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

(1907 - 1990) American theatrical producer

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.

I'm afraid that fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.

(1970 – ) American stand-up comedian & voice actor

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.

If Congress must do a painful thing, the thing must be done in an odd-number year.

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.

(1770 – 1831) German philosopher