Reasonable Time Lines

Famous quotes containing the words reasonable, time and/or lines:

    “An act of God was defined as “something which no reasonable man could have expected.””
    —A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

    “The last time we used battleships was in the Spanish-American War. And what did we get out of that? Cuba. And we gave that back.”
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    “The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
    —Anonymous.

    A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)