Subject: Time (Page 8)

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Time: The arbitrary division of eternity.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

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

(1973 – ) American comedian

In terms of timetables, as quickly as possible – whatever that means.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.

(1905 – 1988) Austrian-born American conductor

Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever.

Only at the start/re-start of a DIY job do you realise the need to return to your toolbox/shed to retrieve another tool.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

Anybody who tells you that life is brief hasn’t been to motor vehicles recently.

(1946 – ) American comedian, actor & voice actor

There’s no future in time travel.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

He is accelerating all the time; the last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1820 – 1903) English philosopher

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

(1953 – 1998) baseball player