Subject: Time (Page 3)

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

Remember, today could just as easily be the LAST day of the rest of your life.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Pocket Watch: A watch for people who don’t like having time on their hands.

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

(1893 – 1978) American author

Candy, is dandy, but liquor, is quicker.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

(1868 – 1938) English humorist, editor, publisher & writer

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.

There was three minutes to go about two minutes ago.

English football player & manager

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

Life’s too short for chess.

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

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

He asked me if I knew what time it was… I said, “Yes, but not right now.”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Punctuality: The art of arriving for an appointment just in time to be indignant at the tardiness of the other party.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

Twilight: All the difference between day and night.

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist