“Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”

Source: Kiss and Tell

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South African-American writer 1951

Steve Kluger (1952) American writer

Source: My Most Excellent Year

“My belief is that every man after fifty-five is always ill more or less.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: Mencken: A Life by Fred Hobson (1994), Chapter 18, Looking Two Ways (p. 426)

“There is always time for another last minute”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

There is no indication that Einstein said this. According to Quote Investigator, the earliest publication of a quote similar was in a collection of articles about manufacturing in 1966, when an employee of the Stainless Processing Company wrote a piece titled "The Manufacturing Manager's Skills." The article attributed the quote to an unnamed professor at Yale, by saying, "If I had only one hour to solve a problem, I would spend up to two-thirds of that hour in attempting to define what the problem is." (See, 1966, The Manufacturing Man and His Job by Robert E. Finley and Henry R. Ziobro, "The Manufacturing Manager's Skills" by William H. Markle (Vice President, Stainless Processing Company, Chicago, Illinois), Start Page 15, Quote Page 18, Published by American Management Association, Inc., New York. Verified on paper). https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/22/solve/
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Variant: If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.