Subject: Time (Page 25)

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

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

(1950 – ) American science fiction writer, & publisher

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author

The time of departure will be delayed by the square of the number of people involved.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & actress

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

(1897 – 1982) French writer

Why women don’t blink during foreplay… not enough time.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

If, in the course of several months, if only three worthwhile social events take place, they will all fall on the same evening.

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

(1956 – ) American comedian

It’s not perfect, but to me on balance Right Now is a lot better than the Good Old Days.

(1939 – 2012) Irish writer & speaker

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

My wife and I were happy for 20 years… then we met.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

History doesn't repeat itself – historians merely repeat each other.

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

American History Is A Thing of the Past