Clock Quotes
clock | June 11, 2008Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
- Jane Austen
clock | June 10, 2008Wanted: Young, skinny, wirey fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week.
- Pony Express Advertisement
clock | June 9, 2008Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
- James Rowland Angell
clock | June 8, 2008The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said Excuse me to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.
- Sherri Chasin Calvo
clock | June 7, 2008The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
- James Earl Carter, Jr
clock | June 6, 2008Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
- Joanna Field
clock | June 5, 2008Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter
clock | June 4, 2008[One sometimes feels] a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
- George Frost Kennan
clock | June 3, 2008Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
- Jack London
clock | June 1, 2008Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
clock | May 31, 2008The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg
clock | May 30, 2008Every public action which is not customary either is wrong of if is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
- Francis MacDonald Cornford (1874-1943)
clock | May 29, 2008Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Groucho Marx
clock | May 28, 2008I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.
- Oscar Wilde
clock | May 27, 2008What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.
- Maxwell Maltz
clock | May 26, 2008How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
- John Milton
clock | May 25, 2008No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
- Dylan Thomas
clock | May 24, 2008Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas
clock | May 23, 2008Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
- M. Scott Peck