Subject: Time (Page 23)

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

I just don’t want you to do nothing on the sperm of the moment.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

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

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

(1807 – 1873) paleontologist, glaciologist & geologist

If, in the course of several months, if only three worthwhile social events take place, they will all fall on the same evening.

Everything goes wrong all at once.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

It’s not only a race against the clock but a race against time itself.

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

Howard: It was an hour ago, Sheldon. A Jew sits in front of a house in Texas for that long, for sale signs start to go up.

(1980 – ) American actor, comedian & musician

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

What happens when the future has come and gone?

businessman