Clock Quotes
clock | October 28, 2009Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
clock | October 27, 2009Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce
clock | October 26, 2009Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
- Amanda Heggs, AIDS sufferer, quoted in The Guardian, June 12, 1989
clock | October 25, 2009Sometimes only one person is absent and the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
clock | October 24, 2009We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
- Anais Nin
clock | October 23, 2009If you haven't grown up by the time you are fifty, you don't have to.
- Rick Cook
clock | October 22, 2009Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
- Albert Schweitzer
clock | October 21, 2009I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
clock | October 20, 2009You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
- Alan Alexander Milne
clock | October 19, 2009True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
- Alicia Barnhart
clock | October 18, 2009It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
- Alice Koller
clock | October 17, 2009If it's painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue.
- Alice Duer Miller
clock | October 16, 2009What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
- Alfred North Whitehead
clock | October 15, 2009A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
- Alfred Wiggam
clock | October 14, 2009Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
- Alfred Sheinwold
clock | October 13, 2009In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
- Alfred North Whitehead
clock | October 12, 2009Proverbs are jewels five words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all time sparkle forever.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
clock | October 11, 2009A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
- Alfred Alistair Cooke
clock | October 10, 2009If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.In times when the passions are beginning to take charge of the conduct of human affairs, one should pay less attention to what men of experience and common sense are thinking than to what is preoccupying the imagination of dreamers.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
clock | October 9, 2009I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
- Alexandre Dumas, pere