Subject: Time

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

(1893 – 1978) American author

Plan to be spontaneous… tomorrow.

There must be one day above all others in each life that is the happiest

Corollary: What if you’ve already had it?

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past; I think the past was not predictable when it started.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

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

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

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.

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

Life’s too short for chess.

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