Clock Quotes
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new ... program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
- Art Buchwald
You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.
- Woody Allen
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- Earl Nightingale
The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
- Earle Hitchner
What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.
- Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (November 12, 1840-November 17, 1917)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked, and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- Oscar Wilde
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- Francis Bacon
We usually see only the things we are looking for - so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
- Eric Hoffer
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw
Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Marina Schinz
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
- Jennifer Unlimited
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
- Woody Allen
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."
- C. Northcote Parkinson
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw