Subject: Time (Page 26)

I'd always believed that old saying that the first 15 minutes in jail were the toughest, until I experienced the five minutes after that.

(1962 – ) American actor, comedian, writer, director & producer

Historian: An editor of yesterday’s news.

There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

It's better to retire too soon than too late.

Everything costs more and takes longer.

History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

(1898 – 1981) actor, singer, songwriter & movie producer

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that is sufficient.

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

What time is it?… you mean now?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I intend to live forever – so far, so good.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

I’ve seen the future and it’s much like the present… only longer.

(1953 – 1998) baseball player

If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Life’s too short for chess.

(1834 - 1884) - American born British dramatist & actor

My watch is three hours fast, and I can’t fix it… so I’m going to move to New York.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Simple jobs always get put off because there will be time to do them later.