Clock Quotes
clock | December 29, 2008Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
- Johnny Carson
clock | December 28, 2008Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- John Calvin Coolidge
clock | December 27, 2008Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
- Gladys Taber
clock | December 26, 2008Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm
clock | December 25, 2008She played Bach. I do not know the names of the pieces, but I recognized the stiff ceremonial of the frenchified little German courts and the sober, thrifty comfort of the burghers, and the dancing on the village green, the green trees that looked like Christmas trees, and the sunlight on the wide German country, and a tender cosiness; and in my nostrils there was a warm scent of the soil and I was conscious of a sturdy strength that seemed to have its roots deep in mother earth, and of an elemental power that was timeless and had no home in space.
- W. Somerset Maugham
clock | December 24, 2008I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.
- David Grayson
clock | December 23, 2008Once upon a time - of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
- Charles Dickens
clock | December 22, 2008The invention of the teenager was a mistake, in Miss Manners' opinion.... Once you identify a period of life in which people have few restrictions and, at the same time, few responsibilities - they get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other way.
- Judith Martin
clock | December 21, 2008A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)
clock | December 20, 2008Anytime I've gone to a movie for a first date, it's been bad.
- Tom Everett Scott
clock | December 19, 2008We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. (Refusing economic aid from the West)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
clock | December 18, 2008Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom - the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure - cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime - much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass
clock | December 17, 2008When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - to the end at all costs.
- Harold J. Seymour
clock | December 16, 2008Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain
- Stuti Garg
clock | December 15, 2008If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
clock | December 14, 2008I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law I shall meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all of our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.
- Senator Elihu Root
clock | December 13, 2008Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
- Aristotle
clock | December 12, 2008The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Ambroise Valery
clock | December 11, 2008One reason I don't drink is because I wish to know when I'm having a good time.
- Nancy Astor
clock | December 10, 2008For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton