Subject: Time (Page 5)

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.

(1770 – 1831) German philosopher

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

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

(1922 – 2003) author & playwright

Money still talks these days… trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

No project was ever completed on time and within budget.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

(1950 – ) American science fiction writer, & publisher

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

The speed of time is one second per second.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Time may be a great healer, but’s it’s a lousy beautician.

Historians: People who won’t let bygones be bygones.

Pocket Watch: A watch for people who don’t like having time on their hands.

If a man smiles all the time he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.

Absolutum obsoletum – if it works, it’s out of date.

(1926 – 2002) British management theorist & professor

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

(1928 – ) American psychologist & advice columnist

Eternity is the second ten minutes of aerobics.

The length of debate varies inversely with the complexity of the issue.

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

Why women don’t blink during foreplay… not enough time.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director