Quotes
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Stephen Roberts
Don't just do something. Stand there.
Source Unknown
"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself."
Anthony Trollope
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein
GIRL TALK! (clap clap) [inside joke]
Hamidullah Nuriddin
WHY DID YOU DO IT, MARGO? WHY?? [another inside joke]
Hamidullah Nuriddin
Morning has broken... somebody get the duct tape! Quick!
Herb Tyson
If I have only one life to live, let me live it as an immortal.
Herb Tyson
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Doug Lars
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer
There is nothing to fear, but giant winged monkeys armed with spearguns.
Herb Tyson
I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking," and then I thought: What good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every 12 minutes one is interrupted by dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling
Somewhere on this globe, every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson (1911-1980)
Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
Ernie Kovacs
Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
H.L. Mencken
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the 9 millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry
This isn't right. It isn't even wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Joey Bishop
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones
Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now, blue-green meat, that's REALLY BAD for you.
Tommy Smothers
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Aaron Machado
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Jay Leno
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darrin Weinberg
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life in which you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H.L. Mencken
It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble. It's the things you know that just ain't so.
Artimus Ward, 1834-1867
Do not meddle with the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Source Unknown
Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Source Unknown
What color are your mushrooms. Are they the normal grayish-white or are they red, or blue.
Herb/Katie Tyson
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Joseph Addison
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz
He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave
John Arthorne
To choose time is to save time.
Francis Bacon
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Henry Ward Beecher
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
Jack Bergman
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Louis Berlioz
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bixton
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Mason Brown
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
Lord Byron
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Austin Dobson
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted W. Engstrom
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Robert Frost
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
Merrick Furst
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Robert Gissing
All time management begins with planning.
Tom Greening
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, "We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."
Charles E. Hummel
If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.
Karen Kakascik
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
Ivy Lee
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Abraham Lincoln
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
P. W. Litchfield
How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.
John Longden
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
Sir John Lubbock
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
Wieder Marcia
If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
Jeffery J. Mayer
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles De Montesquieu
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
Mike Murdock
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio Paz
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
Pitman
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Plutarch
Lost time is never found again.
Proverb
It is later than you think.
Chinese Proverb
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
English Proverb
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
French Proverb
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
Polish Proverb
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
Edgar Quinet
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph
Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.
Boardroom Reports
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
Charles Richards
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Anthony Robbins
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Ben Sapir
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
Time discovered truth.
Seneca
Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. Shannon
When the time is right, you just got to do it.
Jack Simplot
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Jim Steinman
If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious.
A. B. Zu Tavern
A day may sink or save a realm.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
Henry Twells
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must
Source Unknown
Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.
Source Unknown
Time cuts down all, both great and small.
Source Unknown
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
Source Unknown
What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
Source Unknown
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.
Robert Updegraff
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
Christine Warren
Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa
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Last updated Monday, October 15, 2001
Katie Tyson