Subject: Time (Page 26)

While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don’t keep and eye on can make an awful mess on your stove.

(1820 – 1897) Mormon missionary
Cooking Food/Drink Time

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

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

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication Future Misspokements Past Speech

The weekend represents the 48 hours that you have to f**k up the life you worked so hard for all week.

(1983 – ) American comedian
Time

An injured friend of his was going to receive back pay radioactively.

Malaprops Money Time

There’s no future in time travel.

Activities Future Past Time Travel

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & actress
Appearance Time TV/Movie Quotes

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. (also attributed to Wheeler)

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Time

[Paul Revere] did warn the British… and I know my American history.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author
History Misspokements

Better late than… pregnant.

Proverbs Situations Time

Never make predictions… especially about the future.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Future Misspokements Time

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years; it lasted forty-three years.

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor
Conflict Parents Relationships Time

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Future Life Time

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

comedian
Life Past Situations Time

Tomorrow: What always comes but never arrives.

Definitions Future Time

I saw a bank that said “24 Hour Banking,” but I don’t have that
 much time.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Money Things Time

History is more or less bunk.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist
History Time

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

The hands on my biological clock are giving me the finger.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian
Age People Self Time

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Characteristics Past Situations Time

Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

Muppet character (Frank Oz)
Time TV/Movie Quotes