Clock Quotes
clock | April 30, 2009"One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll
clock | April 29, 2009Acquit me, or do not acquit me, but be sure that I shall not alter my way of life, no, not if I have to die for it many times.
- Socrates
clock | April 28, 2009The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- Henry Louis Mencken
clock | April 27, 2009There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
- John Fowles
clock | April 26, 2009Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931)
clock | April 23, 2009I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
- Hippolyte Taine
clock | April 22, 2009Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
clock | April 21, 2009Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor's hat until it's grey like a dunce's cap.
- Franz Grillparzer
clock | April 20, 2009I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
clock | April 19, 2009There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
clock | April 18, 2009Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- Jeff Valdez
clock | April 17, 2009A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
- Ralph W. Sockman
clock | April 16, 2009The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
- Odetta
clock | April 15, 2009Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
- Plutarch
clock | April 14, 2009That's what life is like. You have to keep running on the treadmill of evolution or you fall off.
- Bill Nye, The Science Guy
clock | April 12, 2009A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
- Lawrence Downs
clock | April 11, 2009There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
- J. Donald Adams
clock | April 10, 2009I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand ...
- Peter Oakley
clock | April 9, 2009There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
- Martha Graham