Hour Lost

I work until beer o'clock. - Stephen King

Our costliest expenditure is time. - Theophrastus

Wait for the wisest of counselors, time. - Pericles

One sees things for the first time only once. - Theodore H White

Why, when I am talking, does time seem to fly? - Bob Grant

Tradition: A clock which tells what time it was. - Elbert Hubbard

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities. - Thomas Carlyle

No man goes before his time ... unless the boss leaves early. - Groucho Marx

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff. - Mark Zuckerberg

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore

Our youth we can have but today; we may always find time to grow old. - George Berkeley

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. - Nicholas Sparks

A long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. - Charles Manson

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Green Hubbard

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Ernest Hemingway

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time. - Stephen Furst

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Women have a hard enough time in this world; telling them the truth would be too cruel. - H L Mencken

Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. - Phyllis Diller

I look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time. - Josh Billings

It takes less time to do something right the first time, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - Unknown

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

Give me a Murphy bed, a Lazy Susan, a grandfather clock and a bulldog, and I will show you the meaning of comedy. - Jonathan Goldstein

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. - Shakti Gawain

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies?
There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. - Groucho Marx

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. - Terry Pratchett

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. - Arturo Toscanini

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect. - William Hazlitt

The secret is: don't hold back. I know it doesn't - work you tried it. But did you really? When it's time not to hold back, you shouldn't hold back at all. - Paul Williams

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. - Robert F. Kennedy

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. - E B White

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! - Jay Leno

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. - Greg Anderson