Subject: Time (Page 28)

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce… instantly.

(1973 – ) American comedian

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock; after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20.

American choral conductor, director, teacher & radio host

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I was walking by a dry cleaner at 3 a.m., and it said “Sorry, we’re closed” … you don’t have to be sorry – it’s 3 a.m., and you’re a dry cleaner.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

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

People say ‘I’m taking it one day at a time.’ … you know what… so is everybody, that’s how time works.


When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page.

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama – I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

American basketball coach

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

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

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Four years ago… no, it was yesterday.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another.

(1887 – 1915) English poet

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

(1897 – 1982) French writer

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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