Clock Quotes
clock | April 11, 2008The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
- Travis Walton
clock | April 10, 2008I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
clock | April 9, 2008What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
- Vicomte de Valmont
clock | April 8, 2008If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
- Benjamin Franklin
clock | April 6, 2008Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
clock | April 5, 2008A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
- Frank Vanderlip
clock | April 4, 2008There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
- Oliver Goldsmith
clock | April 3, 2008In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
- Nancy Astor
clock | April 1, 2008People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
clock | March 31, 2008People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
- J. Michael Straczynski
clock | March 30, 2008Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
- Garrison Keillor
clock | March 29, 2008Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- Mark Twain
clock | March 28, 2008People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
- John Miller
clock | March 26, 2008There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.
- O. Henry
clock | March 25, 2008The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
- Francis H. Bradley
clock | March 24, 2008The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
- Kingman Brewster, Jr
clock | March 23, 2008When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob August Riis