Clock Quotes
clock | December 27, 2009I have made this a rather long letter because I haven't had time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
clock | December 26, 2009Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past:
Live this day, a if 'twere they last.
- Bishop Thomas Ken
clock | December 25, 2009Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve. As, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting; laboring too much to little purpose; as good no scythe as no edge.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
clock | December 24, 2009Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.
- Bill T. Jones
clock | December 23, 2009Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Calvin - Bill Watterson 'Calvin and Hobbes'
clock | December 22, 2009The task of government in this enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems. Solving problems might put bureaucrats out of work. No, the task of government is to make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the maximum number of consultants and bureaucrats employed dealing with them.
- Bob Emmers
clock | December 21, 2009For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
- Bill Bryson
clock | December 20, 2009Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
clock | December 19, 2009Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
- Bette Davis
clock | December 18, 2009One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
- Baltasar Gracian
clock | December 17, 2009You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
- Beryl Markham
clock | December 16, 2009In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell
clock | December 15, 2009 It is the time we have now, and all our wasted time sinks into the sea and is swallowed up without a trace. The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.
- John Ashbery
clock | December 14, 2009Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation.
- Bertrand Russell
clock | December 13, 2009It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
- Bertrand de Jouvenal
clock | December 12, 2009Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
- Bert Murray
clock | December 11, 2009Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
clock | December 10, 2009All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
- Benjamin McLane Spock
clock | December 9, 2009It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin
clock | December 8, 2009Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli