TIME & TIMING
Quotes
1
I am always quarreling with time! It is so short to do something and so long to do nothing.
— Queen Charlotte
2
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
— Leontyne Price
3
We must use time creatively...and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
4
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
— Albert Einstein
5
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
— Hippocrates
6
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
— Bernard Berenson
7
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
— Lord Chesterfield
8
It takes a lot of time to be sentimental.
— Don Herold
9
Life is short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be gained.
— Stendhal
10
Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares.
— Francis Bacon
11
Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, times stays, we go.
— Austin Dobson
12
Ah! The clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
— Robert W. Service
13
Time heals what reason cannot.
— Seneca the Younger
14
Time makes more converts than reason.
— Thomas Paine
15
Time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
16
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
— Lord Chesterfield
17
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
— G. K. Chesterton
18
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin
19
What is a ruin but time easing itself in endurance?
— Djuna Barnes
20
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
21
Time — the devourer of all things.
— Ovid
22
You may delay, but Time will not.
— Benjamin Franklin
23
Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
— Herbert Spencer
24
The ripeness is all.
— William Shakespeare
25
Time wounds all heels.
— Jane Ace
26
Time is money.
— Benjamin Franklin
Sayings
1
Tempus fugit (Time flies).
2
Time flies when you’re having fun.
3
If you want a job done fast, give it to a busy person.
4
Time heals all wounds.
Joke
A big-time negotiator was out fishing one day when he caught a strange-looking fish. He reeled the fish in, unhooked it, and threw it on the ground next to him. The fish started writhing in agony and, to the negotiator’s surprise, said, “Please throw me back in the lake and I’ll grant you three wishes.”
“Any three wishes, huh?” The negotiator mused as visions of expensive fast cars and equally expensive and faster women paraded through his head. “Fish,” he finally exclaimed, “give me five wishes and I’ll throw you back.”
“Sorry,” the fish answered while struggling for breath, “only three wishes.”
The negotiator knew his pride was at stake and after giving the matter some thought announced, “What do you take me for? A sucker? I’ll settle for four wishes.” “Only three,” the fish muttered weakly.
Fuming, the man debated the pros and cons of accepting the three wishes or continuing to bargain for that one extra wish. Finally, the negotiator decided it wasn’t worth looking a gift fish in the mouth and said, “All right, fish, you win, three wishes.”
Unfortunately, the fish was dead.