Subject: Time (Page 26)

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another.

(1887 – 1915) English poet

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

It's always the wrong time of the month.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

There comes a time in every man’s life… and I’ve had many of them.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

You never have the right number of pills left on the last day of a prescription.

What is history but a set of lies agreed upon.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

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

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide,' and then one morning you wake up and realize you done slid.

(1921 – 1989) American boxing champion

Time moves slower in a fast moving vehicle.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

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

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

There are only two types of computers in the world: those that waste your precious time and those that waste your precious time faster.

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.