Clock Quotes
clock | November 14, 2007The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay in the narrow path she helped make, following the contour of the land, but she often profits by staying with it and she would be handicapped if she didn't know where it was or where it led to.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | November 13, 2007Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
- Clive Staples Lewis
clock | November 12, 2007Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought!
- Stephen King
clock | November 11, 2007Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it
- Mark Twain
clock | November 10, 2007Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
- Jan King
clock | November 9, 2007I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' ... A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber
clock | November 7, 2007Try not to have a good time, this is supposed to be educational.
- Charles Monroe Schulz
clock | November 6, 2007Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
clock | November 5, 2007Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)
- Horace
clock | November 3, 2007Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
- Guy Davenport
clock | November 1, 2007An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
clock | October 30, 2007Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that's not the reason we're doing it.
- Richard Feynman
clock | October 29, 2007You must remember this,
A kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.
- Herman Hupfeld
clock | October 28, 2007I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
- Charles de Gaulle
clock | October 26, 2007I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
- William Shakespeare