Clock Quotes
clock | March 19, 2009It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | March 18, 2009If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
- Leon Trotsky
clock | March 17, 2009The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- Desiderius Erasmus
clock | March 16, 2009I don't understand why Obama is abandoning the War on Science. It's the only war we were winning.
- John Oliver, on The Daily Show
clock | March 15, 2009In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Orson Welles, 1915 - 1985
clock | March 14, 2009Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
- Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 - 1941
clock | March 13, 2009Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 - 1980
clock | March 12, 2009Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962
clock | March 11, 2009Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
clock | March 10, 2009Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
- Sam Levenson, 1911 - 1980
clock | March 9, 2009I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | March 8, 2009Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
- T. S. Eliot
clock | March 7, 2009The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self- respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
- Jeannette Rankin
clock | March 6, 2009There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
- Miguel de Cervantes
clock | March 5, 2009I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I've discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times.
- Fred McFeely Rogers
clock | March 4, 2009There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it.... Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.
- Thomas Paine
clock | March 3, 2009There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
- Mark Twain
clock | March 2, 2009One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
- Thomas Sowell
clock | March 1, 2009History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
- Thurgood Marshall
clock | February 28, 2009So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson