Clock Quotes
clock | October 10, 2008Increase of freedom in the State may sometimes promote mediocrity, and give vitality to prejudice; it may even retard useful legislation, diminish the capacity for war, and restrict the boundaries of Empire.... A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor and weak, and of no account, but free; rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
- Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
clock | October 9, 2008To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
clock | October 8, 2008The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
- Booth Tarkington, 1869 - 1946
clock | October 7, 2008Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
- Margaret B. Johnstone
clock | October 6, 2008A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
clock | October 5, 2008It'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 | October 4, 2008It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter
clock | October 3, 2008What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
- Thomas Jefferson
clock | October 2, 2008An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
clock | October 1, 2008If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.
- Marguerite Emmons
clock | September 30, 2008Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
clock | September 29, 2008Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert
clock | September 28, 2008It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
- Thomas Jefferson
clock | September 27, 2008Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
- Newton N. Minow
clock | September 26, 2008If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.In times when the passions are beginning to take charge of the conduct of human affairs, one should pay less attention to what men of experience and common sense are thinking than to what is preoccupying the imagination of dreamers.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
clock | September 25, 2008Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.
- John Quinton
clock | September 24, 2008The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw
clock | September 23, 2008Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift.
- Maya Angelou
clock | September 22, 2008Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
- Rene Descartes
clock | September 21, 2008Remember how long thou hast been putting off these things, and how often thou hast received an opportunity from the gods, and yet dost not use it. Thou must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a part, and of what administrator of the universe thy existence is an efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.
- Marcus Aurelius