Subject: Time (Page 4)

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Murphy’s Laws Time

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Proverbs Situations Time

The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.

Communication Conversation Murphy’s Laws Time

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor
Government Law Lawyers Money Time

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A loafer always has the correct time.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Characteristics Time

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

(1936 – ) novelist, essayist & columnist
Conflict Men Past Women

Those who learn nothing from history are condemned to rewrite it.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor
History Time

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic
Time

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

typographer
Activities Situations Sleep Time

I love my Fed-Ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it…and he's always on time.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Activities Drugs Time

The speed of time is one second per second.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Science/Weather Time

In the year 3000, everything will be instant… but the DMV will still take, like, nine f**king seconds.

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor
Future Time

Urgency varies inversely with importance.

Murphy’s Laws Time

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Communication History Murphy’s Laws Speech

Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.

Time

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

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

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

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar
Situations Time

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist
Age Life Success Time

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.

Animals Cats Science/Weather Time