Subject: Time (Page 13)

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist
Situations Time

Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow.

(1956 – ) American comedian
Arms Conflict Time

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

(1899 – 1985) US author & humorist
Family Fathers Time War

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
Characteristics Science/Weather Time

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Characteristics Husbands Marriage Time Truth Wives

By the time you get to the point where you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist
Communication Intelligence Reading/Writing Time

All modern men are descended from a wormlike creature… but it shows more on some people.

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic
History People Time

I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking; but I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.

(1883 – 1962) British barrister, judge, politician & preacher
Communication Speech Time

Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.

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

1. Important mail arrives late. 2. Junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

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
Characteristics Education Learning Problems 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

You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Housework Things Time Work

History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer
History Intelligence Time

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Murphy’s Laws Time

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Conflict Future Things Time War

The amount of sleep needed by the average person is five minutes more.

typographer
Activities Situations Sleep Time

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Good Old Days: What people fifty years hence will be calling the present time.

Definitions Past Time

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

(1837 – 1920) American author
Insults People Relationships Time