Subject: Time (Page 6)

The ratio of time involved in work to time available for work is usually about 0.6.

Murphy’s Laws Time Work

Never make predictions… especially about the future.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Future Misspokements Time

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author
History Time

As soon as you dispose of a book, even one that has gathered dust for years, a pressing need to refer to it will arise.

Books Murphy’s Laws Time

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Money Time

Styrofoam is biodegradable; you people are just impatient.

American comedian & writer
Science/Weather Time

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian
England Places Time

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman
Activities Time

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

(1904 – 1974) American author & radio producer
History Time Wordplay

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Future Yogi-isms

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

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

Four years ago… no, it was yesterday.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Time

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist
People Time

Depression: A period during which we have to get along without the things our grandparents never dreamed of.

Definitions Money Past Time

The speed of time is one second per second.

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

There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 a.m… it could be the right number.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Communication Time

There was three minutes to go about two minutes ago.

English football player & manager
Colemanballs Time

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

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
Death Future Intelligence Time

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.

(1905 – 1988) Austrian-born American conductor
Money Situations Time