Subject: Time (Page 4)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(1940 – ) computer scientist

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

The late start is due to the time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I admit that I live in the past, but only because housing is so much cheaper.

American comedian

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs.  You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them.  Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve.  No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

American baseball player

Twilight: All the difference between day and night.

I went to the 24-hour grocer; when I got there, the guy was locking the front and I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse – as a man shoots himself.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

I don’t want to say the wait was long, but the guy in front of me was being treated for a musket wound.

(1962 – ) American stand-up comedian, writer, actor & radio host

It's always the wrong time of the month.

My girlfriend asked me how long I was going to be gone on this tour; I said, “the whole time.”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

I didn’t think prohibition would last that long.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Good Old Days: A block of time which ended a week before you were hired.

When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last.

Time is nature’s way of not letting everything happen at once.