Clock Quotes
clock | July 1, 2008You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.
- Richard A. Weatherwax
clock | June 30, 2008A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
- Norman Douglas
clock | June 29, 2008Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
- New York Times
clock | June 28, 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
clock | June 27, 2008A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
- Norman Douglas
clock | June 26, 2008We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
- Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)
clock | June 25, 2008There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
clock | June 24, 2008Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.
- Lord Liverpool
clock | June 23, 2008That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
- Laurie E. Colwin
clock | June 22, 2008There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
- Laurens van der Post
clock | June 21, 2008Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.
- John J. Miller
clock | June 20, 2008In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
clock | June 19, 2008Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
- Lou Brock
clock | June 18, 2008It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein
clock | June 17, 2008Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.
- Kobi Yamada
clock | June 16, 2008The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
- Sydney J. Harris
clock | June 15, 2008It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
- Richard Whately
clock | June 14, 2008Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
- J. P. McEvoy
clock | June 13, 2008Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
- Leo C. Rosten
clock | June 12, 2008The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri