Clock Quotes
clock | January 13, 2008Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | January 12, 2008People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
- Neil Postman
clock | January 11, 2008Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
clock | January 10, 2008On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
clock | January 8, 2008Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
clock | January 7, 2008These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.
- Brenda Ueland
clock | January 6, 2008Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
- Learned Hand
clock | January 5, 2008He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.
- English proverb
clock | January 4, 2008I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
[Please don't forward this to W!]
clock | January 3, 2008People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
- Simeon Strunsky
clock | January 2, 2008Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
- Marabel Morgan
clock | January 1, 2008If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.
- Frank Tyger
clock | December 31, 2007A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
- Knox Manning
clock | December 30, 2007Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
- Helen Hoover Santmyer
clock | December 29, 2007The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything.
- Lido Anthony Iacocca
clock | December 28, 2007Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
- Brendan Francis
clock | December 26, 2007You are ... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
- Dag Hammarskjold, 1905 - 1961
clock | December 25, 2007We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland