Clock Quotes
clock | July 22, 2008He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
clock | July 21, 2008Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art.
- Molly Ivins
clock | July 20, 2008In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | July 18, 2008More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
clock | July 17, 2008Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.
- Dave Barry
clock | July 16, 2008The daily arguments over putting away the toys or practicing the piano defeat us so easily. We see them coming yet they frustrate us time and time again. In many cases, we are mothers and fathers who have managed budgets and unruly bosses and done difficult jobs well through sheer tenacity and dogged preparation. So why are we unable to persuade someone three feet tall to step into six inches of water at bathtime?
- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
clock | July 14, 2008Avoid Quiet and Placid persons unless you are in Need of Sleep.
- National Lampoon
clock | July 13, 2008No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
- Donald Foster
clock | July 12, 2008Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.
- Sandra Bullock
clock | July 11, 2008To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
- Leonard Hodgson
clock | July 10, 2008Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
- Thornton Niven Wilder
clock | July 9, 2008The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
- William Hazlitt
clock | July 8, 2008The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
- William Feather
clock | July 7, 2008Do each daily task the best we can; act as tough the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
- William Feather
clock | July 6, 2008Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
clock | July 5, 2008I like the man who faces what he must,
With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fights the daily battle without fear.
- Sarah Knowles Bolton
clock | July 4, 2008If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
clock | July 2, 2008All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne