Subject: Time (Page 3)

Dick Clark went to a psychic; she told him, in a previous life, he was Dick Clark.

comedian

The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it.

Everything happens at the same time with nothing in between.

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

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(1940 – ) computer scientist

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I couldn’t care less about all those fiction stories about what happened in the year 1500 or 1600. Half of them aren’t even true.

professional golfer

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Whenever I think about the past, it just brings back so many memories.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Tomorrow: What always comes but never arrives.

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

(1897 – 1982) French writer

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.

(1770 – 1831) German philosopher

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

(1820 – 1903) English philosopher