Clock Quotes
clock | April 8, 2009Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
- Francis Bacon
clock | April 7, 2009He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
- John Lennon
clock | April 6, 2009Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
- Leo C. Rosten
clock | April 5, 2009This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
- Shaquille O'Neal
clock | April 4, 2009Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
- Patty Sheehan
clock | April 3, 2009A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
- Duke of Edinburgh
clock | April 2, 2009Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
clock | April 1, 2009But even in wartime, the Constitution doesn't protect just freedom of popular speech, or the right to support the government, or the expression of political views that don't make anyone mad.
- Steve Chapman
clock | March 31, 2009Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | March 30, 2009When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
clock | March 29, 2009Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
- Francis Bacon
clock | March 28, 2009The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
clock | March 26, 2009Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper
- George Orwell
clock | March 25, 2009People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
- George Herbert Allen (1922-90)
clock | March 24, 2009Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
- Richard Evelyn Byrd
clock | March 23, 2009Well, it's amazing how time can so softly change your ways and make you look at things that can't be seen. And how the years that roll by can start you listening not just to what they say, but what they mean.
- Michael Nesmith
clock | March 22, 2009All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
- Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (1880 - 1964)
clock | March 21, 2009Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-1958)
clock | March 20, 2009It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
- Jim Rohn