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- I now have no time to be tired.
- Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.
- Jefferson still survivies.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas Jefferson
- This is no time to make new enemies.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)
- I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
- Arturo Toscanini
- Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up.
- Murphy Brown, on "The Sex Thing"
- Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them.
- Jerry Garcia, on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at the Inaugural. Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992.
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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