Clock Quotes
clock | January 17, 2009Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
- Charles Darwin
clock | January 16, 2009What a phenomenon it has been - science fiction, space fiction - exploding out of nowhere, unexpectedly of course, as always happens when the human mind is being forced to expand; this time starwards, galaxy-wise, and who knows where next.
- Doris Lessing
clock | January 15, 2009True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
clock | January 14, 2009Dullard, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy, have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dulness having blighted the crops. For some centuries, they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually…
clock | January 13, 2009Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard David Bach
clock | January 12, 2009Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- John W Whitehead
clock | January 11, 2009To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.
- John W. Roper
clock | January 10, 2009That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.
- John Stuart Mill
clock | January 9, 2009The exploration and ultimate colonization of the solar system is the only future worthy of truly great nations at this time in history. The Soviets, who cannot even feed themselves, seem to understand this.
- John S. Powers
clock | January 8, 2009In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
- John Ruskin
clock | January 7, 2009History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells 'can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.
- John W. Campbell Jr
clock | January 6, 2009Sometimes I reflect back on all the beer I have consumed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
- Jack Handy
clock | January 5, 2009Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
- Jane E. Brody
clock | January 4, 2009Tis the reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | January 3, 2009A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
clock | January 2, 2009Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.
- Andre Maurois
clock | January 1, 2009At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with a Bonaparte at their head and disposing of all the treasure of the earth, our own excepted, could not by force make a track on the Blue Ridge or take a drink from the Ohio in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come…
clock | December 31, 2008To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
- Clifton Fadiman
clock | December 30, 2008Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas Time.
- Charles Dickens