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Quotes About Time

Oh, to be seventy again!
~ Georges Clemenceau
Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"
~ Frank Carson
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
~ Lena Dunham
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
~ Saki, Reginald
After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?
~ Steven Wright
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
~ Terry Pratchett, Thud!
Old is always fifteen years from now.
~ Bill Cosby
I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
~ Mark Twain
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
~ J.B. Priestley
What year did Jesus think it was?
~ George Carlin
Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?
~ Steven Wright
Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?
~ Frankie Boyle
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
~ Marcel Achard
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
~ Clint Eastwood
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'
~ Steven Wright
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
~ George W. Bush
Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?
~ George Carlin
Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
~ George Carlin
I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
~ P. J. O'Rourke