Please do not Google or check this with Snopes.  They will lie to you. Trust me!

In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy.   And Dot Com was a comely woman, large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg.  Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

And she said unto Abraham, her husband, “Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?”

And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, “How, dear?

And Dot replied, “I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah’s Pony Stable (UPS).”

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums.  And the drums rang out and were an immediate success.  Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew  It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures – Hebrew to the People (HTTP).

And the young men did take to Dot Com’s trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung.  They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS  And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates’ drum heads and drumsticks.

And Dot did say, “Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others.” And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known.  He said, “We need a name that reflects what we are.”

And Dot replied, “Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators.”  “YAHOO,” said Abraham. And because it was Dot’s idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham’s cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot’s drums to locate things around the countryside.

 It soon became known as God’s Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).

 That is how it all began. And that’s the truth.

 I would not make up this stuff, trust me.

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If my body was a car, this is the time I would be thinking about trading it in for a newer model. I’ve got bumps and dents and scratches in my finish and my paint job is getting a little dull…

But that’s not the worst of it.

My headlights are out of focus, and it’s especially hard to see things up close.  My traction is not as graceful as it once was. I slip and slide and skid and bump into things even in the best of weather. My whitewalls are stained with varicose veins. It takes me hours to reach my maximum speed. My fuel rate burns inefficiently.

But here’s the worst of it.

Almost every time I sneeze, cough or sputter,  either My Radiator Leaks or My Exhaust Backfires !

Short quotes about time

1. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” —Pope John Paul II

2. “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”  —Anthony G. Oettinger

3. “Seize the day, then let it go.” —Marty Rubin

4. “The most precious resource we all have is time.” —Steve Jobs 

5. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” —Tennessee Williams

6. “The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” —Lord Chesterfield

7. “Own time or time will own you.” —Brian Norgard

8. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

9. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.” —Rose Kennedy

10. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” —Khalil Gibran

11. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” —Bonnie Prudden

12. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” —Abraham Lincoln

13. “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” —Max Frisch

14. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus

15. “Life, if well lived, is long enough.” —Seneca

If you have the time, read these gratitude quotes that will remind you to be thankful every single day.

Inspirational quotes about time

16. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep t, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” —Harvey Mackay

17. “One day you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” —John Green

18. “Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it or waste it. That’s it.” —A.J. Compton 

19. “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” —Haruki Murakami

20. “The present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own.” —Charles Caleb Colton

21. “The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.” —G.K. Chesterton

22. “We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.” —Warren Zevon

23. “There’s only one thing more precious than our time, and that’s who we spend it on.” —Leo Christopher

24. “The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” —Niccolò Machiavelli

25. “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” —George Bernard Shaw

26. “There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” —Jack Bergman

27. “You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.” —Herb Gardner

28. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” —Art Buchwald

Famous quotes about time

29. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”  —C.S. Lewis

30. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” —Laozi

31. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” —Coco Chanel

32. “Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne

33. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” —Marthe Troly-Curtin

34. “Time does not pass; it continues.” —Marty Rubin

35. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” —John F. Kennedy

36. “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” —Dr. Seuss

37. “Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.” —Paracelsus

38. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” —The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

39. “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” —Denis Waitley

Funny quotes about time

40. “Time is a great healer but a poor beautician.” —Lucille S. Harper

41. “Time is a waste of money.” —Oscar Wilde

42. “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” —Jean-Paul Sartre

43. “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” —Douglas Adams

44. “Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of $75 per hour for it without necessarily fixing anything.” —

45. “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” —Frank H. Knight

46. “So little time and so little to do.” —Oscar Levant

47. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” —Bill Watterson

48. “Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.” —Frank Dane

49. “No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” —Groucho Marx

50. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management … just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” —Louis E. Boone

• When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
• To me, “drink responsibly” means don’t spill it.
• When I say, “The other day,” I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
• Interviewer: “So, tell me about yourself.” Me: “I’d rather not. I kinda want this job.”
• Cop: “Please step out of the car.” Me: “I’m too drunk. You get in.
• I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
• I had my patience tested. I’m negative.
• Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers.
• If you’re sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, “Did you bring the money?”
• When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say “nothing,” it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
• Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 is the new midnight.
• I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
• I run like the winded.
• I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don’t know whose side I’m on.
• When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, “Why, what did you hear?”
• I don’t remember much from last night, but the fact that I needed sunglasses to open the fridge this morning tells me it was awesome.
• When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
• I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
• When I ask for directions, please don’t use words like “east.”
• It’s the start of a brand-new day, and I’m off like a herd of turtles.
• Don’t bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That’ll freak you right out.
• That moment when you walk into a spider web suddenly turns you into a karate master.
• Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life outta nowhere, makes your heart race and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
• The older I get, the earlier it gets late.

1. Writing my name in cursive is my signature move.
2. Why do bees stay in their hives during winter? Swarm. 
3. If you’re bad at haggling, you’ll end up paying the price. 
4. Just so everyone is clear, I’m going to put my glasses on. 
5. A commander walks into a bar and orders everyone around. 
6. I lost my job as a stage designer. I left without making a scene. 
7. Never buy flowers from a monk. Only you can prevent florist friars. 
8. How much did the pirate pay to get his ears pierced? A buccaneer. 
9. My friends and I have named our band ‘Duvet’. It’s a cover band. 
10. I lost my girlfriend’s audiobook, and now I’ll never hear the end of it. 
11. Why is ‘dark’ spelled with a k and not c? Because you can’t see in the dark. 
12. Why is it unwise to share your secrets with a clock? Well, time will tell. 
13. Scientists got together to study the effects of alcohol on a person’s walk, and the result was staggering. 

Every box of raisins is a tragic tale of grapes that could have been wine. 

They say we can have gatherings with up to eight people without issues.  I don’t even know eight people without issues.

Theme parks can snap a crystal-clear picture of you on a roller coaster going 70 mph, but bank cameras can’t get a clear shot of a robber standing still.

Someone posted that they had just made synonym buns.  I replied, “you mean just like the ones that grammar used to make?” I am now blocked

Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers … if you do find one, what’s your plan?

The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah let only animals on the boat. 

Facial recognition software can pick a person out of a crowd but the vending machine at work can’t recognize a dollar bill with a bent corner.

When all this pandemic stuff is over, I still plan to wear a mask.  It hides the perpetual look of annoyance I have for most people. 

Covid-19 Fact:  87% of gym members didn’t even know their gym is closed.  

I never make the same mistake twice.  I do it like, five or six times, you know, to make sure.

My train of thought derailed.  There were no survivors. 

If you see someone buying candy, popcorn, and a soda at the movies, they are a drug dealer.  There’s no other explanation for that type of income.

After a year of this pandemic, I’m either going out for ice cream or to commit a felony.  I’ll decide in the car.

I know it’s time to clean out my purse when my car assumes it’s an extra passenger who isn’t wearing a seat belt.  

Dr. Oz says rubbing coffee grounds on your naked body will get rid of cellulite.  Apparently, you can’t do this in Starbucks.  And now the cops are here.

Do not vaccinate health care workers first.  If it fails, we’re all in trouble.  Vaccinate the politicians first.  If we lose a few of them, it won’t matter.

In the 1980’s I fell off my bike and skinned my knee.  I’m telling you this now because we didn’t have social media then.

Some people seem to have aged like fine wine.  I aged like milk … I got sour and chunky.

Dear Sneeze:  If you’re going to happen, happen.  Don’t just put a stupid look on my face and then leave.

Vegetarians live up to nine years longer than meat-eaters.  Nine horrible, worthless, bacon-less years.

We all know Albert Einstein was a genius.  But his brother Frank was a monster. M

I still have a full deck… I just shuffle slower.

Those who have followed my blog know that Thomas Jefferson rates with me as one of the greatest men our country was blessed to have. That said it is sometimes easy to forget just how great Jefferson was but the following chronology gives a brief view. One indication of that is the quote from John Kennedy.

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. Also could write in Greek with one hand while writing the same in Latin with the other.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America” and retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of the Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to Monticello.

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government.  He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff.

A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time.  He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”