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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

A. E. Housman
Funny, Humor, Ignorance
"Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.