Clock Quotes
clock | September 20, 2008I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
- Linda Ellerbee
clock | September 19, 2008He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. -
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
clock | September 18, 2008Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
clock | September 17, 2008In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good it is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are now subjugated.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
clock | September 16, 2008History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
- Thurgood Marshall
clock | September 15, 2008The New York Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country ...
- Robert J. Woodhead
clock | September 14, 2008Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
clock | September 13, 2008Statues of marble or brass will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues ... But print and reprint a thought a thousand times over, and that with materials of any kind ... the thought is eternally and identically the same thought in every case.
- Thomas Paine
clock | September 12, 2008Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made; Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
- Robert Browning
clock | September 11, 2008In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
clock | September 10, 2008There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)
- Richard M. Nixon
clock | September 9, 2008I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
clock | September 8, 2008When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
- Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898
clock | September 7, 2008Louis was the king of France
Before the revolution...
But then he got his head cut off
Which spoiled his constitution...
- Haul Away, Joe (Traditional/Almanac Singers - 1880s/1941)
clock | September 6, 2008Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
clock | September 5, 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 | September 4, 2008The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
clock | September 3, 2008At 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 | September 2, 2008A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)
clock | September 1, 2008Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
- Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982)