Clock Quotes
clock | May 17, 2010Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
- Edgar Watson Howe
clock | May 16, 2010For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
clock | May 15, 2010Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart; one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe
clock | May 14, 2010I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
clock | May 12, 2010Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
- Earl Nightingale
clock | May 11, 2010The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
- E. R. Eddison
clock | May 10, 2010The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram.
- E. P. Whipple
clock | May 9, 2010"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!"
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
clock | May 8, 2010The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | May 7, 2010There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
- Duke Ellington
clock | May 6, 2010Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
clock | May 5, 2010This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
- Douglas Noel Adams
clock | May 4, 2010It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter
clock | May 3, 2010It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
clock | May 2, 2010It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
- Don Marquis
clock | May 1, 2010It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Dr Samuel Johnson
clock | April 30, 2010Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
- Dr Joyce Brothers
clock | April 29, 2010Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
- Douglas Noel Adams
clock | April 28, 2010I have always been waiting for something better - sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.
- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall