Subject: Time (Page 5)

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Fights Politics Time

If you have something to do and you put it off for long enough, the chances are someone else will do it for you.

Murphy’s Laws Time

If I had my life to live over, I wouldn't have time.

(1936 – 1992) singer, songwriter, musician & actor
Life People Self Time

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
History Time

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

comedian
Life Past Situations Time

People are still willing to do an honest day's work; the trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist
Money Time Work

Cricket is a game which the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity.

British politician
People Sports Time

Instant gratification takes too long.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress
Time

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Life Murphy’s Laws Time

This evening is a very different evening from the morning we had this morning.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Time

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Health Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Time

It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realize that you are in a hurry.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author
History Time

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.

(1930 – 1978) American comedian
Eating Food/Drink Time

In the year 3000, everything will be instant… but the DMV will still take, like, nine f**king seconds.

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor
Future Time

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol
Time

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
Emotions Happiness Time

What time is it?… you mean now?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Time Yogi-isms

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author
Life Time

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

(1940 – ) computer scientist
Future Ideas Intelligence Time