Clock Quotes
clock | October 30, 2008All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
- Margaret Mead
clock | October 29, 2008No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
clock | October 28, 2008We have got but one life here. It pays, no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
clock | October 27, 2008In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
- Louise Bogan
clock | October 26, 2008All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
clock | October 25, 2008America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore
clock | October 24, 2008I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships, and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
- Ambrose Bierce
clock | October 23, 2008Family values are a little like family vacations - subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it's often the momentary rainbows that we remember.
- Leslie Dreyfous
clock | October 22, 2008Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- George Orwell
clock | October 21, 2008Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
- Otto von Bismarck
clock | October 20, 2008This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
- Eugene McCarthy
clock | October 19, 2008We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.
- Edward Hoagland
clock | October 18, 2008There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
- Ernest Hemingway
clock | October 17, 2008The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
- Henry David Thoreau
clock | October 16, 2008Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man: yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
clock | October 15, 2008Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.
- Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1810 - 1891
clock | October 14, 2008The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
clock | October 13, 2008Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
clock | October 12, 2008You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
- Chuang Tzu, 369 - 286 BC
clock | October 11, 2008When young, we trust ourselves too much; and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth; timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes - the ripe and fertile season of action when, only, we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.
- Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832