Clock Quotes
clock | December 4, 2007The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
- Horace Greeley
clock | December 3, 2007Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
- Henry Louis Mencken
clock | December 1, 2007A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
clock | November 30, 2007Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
clock | November 29, 2007Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel Barker
clock | November 28, 2007Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
- Euripides
clock | November 27, 2007Until the 20th century, few people needed money. Apart from salt and iron, everything could be paid for in kind. Economic activity was more a means of making the time pass than of making money, which might explain why one of the few winter industries in the Alps was clock-making. Tinkering with tiny mechanisms made time pass less slowly, and the clocks themselves proved that it was indeed passing.
- Graham Robb [N.Y.Times, November 25, 2007]
Hat-tip: Selva
clock | November 26, 2007The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
clock | November 25, 2007I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
clock | November 24, 2007Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me.
- Richard M. Nixon
clock | November 23, 2007For I see now that I am asleep - that I dream when I am awake.
- Pedro Calder n de la Barca
clock | November 22, 2007I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
- Mrs. Robert A. Taft (nee Martha Wheaton Bowers)
clock | November 21, 2007Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | November 20, 2007All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
- Plutarch
clock | November 19, 2007Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat in a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren
clock | November 18, 2007There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging urge to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Mark Twain
clock | November 17, 2007From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
- W. Somerset Maugham
clock | November 16, 2007When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
- Alan Alexander Milne
clock | November 15, 2007What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot