Clock Quotes
clock | October 8, 2009Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
- Alexander Woollcott
clock | October 7, 2009The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
- Alexander Smith
clock | October 6, 2009Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope
clock | October 5, 2009Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.
- Alexander Graham Bell
clock | October 3, 2009Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
- Aleksandar Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
clock | October 2, 2009In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
clock | September 30, 2009A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
clock | September 29, 2009Ogden's Law: The sooner you get behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
- Alan R. Ogden
clock | September 28, 2009Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- Alan Alexander Milne
clock | September 27, 2009What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
- Alain (1818-1951)
clock | September 25, 2009It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work and amusements than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
- Agnes Repplier
clock | September 24, 2009I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
- Albert Camus
clock | September 23, 2009Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, ever minutes so filled with the life I love, that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
- Aga Khan III
clock | September 22, 2009There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
- Aeschylus
clock | September 21, 2009Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
clock | September 20, 2009In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
- Abram L. Urban
clock | September 19, 2009In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
- Abigail Van Buren