Happy hours are very short.
Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Great One-line Quotes., Special Collections, Words of wisdom, tags: an hour, hours- A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.~ Elbert Hubbard
- A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.~ English Proverb
- A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.~ Polish Proverb
- All the hours wound, the last one kills.~ Latin Proverb
- An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.~ Traditional Proverb
- An hour may destroy what an age was building.~ English Proverb
- An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation does.~ Portuguese Proverb
- An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory. ~ Author Unknown
- A three — to four — to five-hour experience with nothingness.~ Frederic Glezer
- Better to be queen for an hour than a countess for life.~ Portuguese Proverb
- Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.~ E. Lamar Kincaid
- Each day, each hour, an entire life.~ Juan Ramon Jiminez
- Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour.~ Jewish Proverb
- For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.~ Author Unknown
- Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.~ Horace
- Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?~ J. Paul Getty
- Happy people never count hours as they pass.~ Chinese Proverb
- Hours once lost cannot be regained.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
- If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it’s women’s work.~ Swahili Proverb
- In America an hour is forty minutes.~ German Proverb
- I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.~ Lord Nelson
- It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.~ Lillian Hellman
- It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour.~ Estonian Proverb
- It takes a year to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour.~ Chinese Proverb
- It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.~ Wayne Burgraff
- Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.~ Mary McLeod Bethune
- Life is now… this day, this hour… and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.~ Charles Macomb Flandrau
- Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Many men are like clocks that show one hour and strike another.~ Danish Proverb
- No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.~ Samuel Johnson
- One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.~ Author Unknown
- Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.~ Ferrant Sanchez Calavera
- Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.~ Paul J. Meyer
- Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.~ Chinese Proverb
- Seize the hour.~ Sophocles
- Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.~ Author Unknown
- Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.~ English Proverb
- Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years.~ Japanese Proverb
- Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.~ Thomas Jefferson
- The darkest hour is just before the dawn.~ Author Unknown
- The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for a forty-hour day.~ Nicholas Murray Butler
- The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.~ C.S. Lewis
- There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.~ English Proverb
- These be three silent things: The Falling snow… the hour before the dawn… the mouth of one just dead.~ Adelaide Crapsey
- The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour.~ Dutch Proverb
- To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.~ Chinese Proverb
- 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 — then it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity! ~ Albert Einstein
- With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours. ~ With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours.~ Polish Proverb
- You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.~ Chinese Proverb
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