Clock Quotes

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. - Leonard Cohen
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Space and time are modes by which we think, not conditions under which we live. Albert Einstein
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin (1840 - 1917)
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Time is not like pocket money that you can spend because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you. from "The Dead Fathers Club" by Matt Haig
We burn daylight. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. Baltasar Gracian
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
A single day is enough to make us a little larger. Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
So little time and so little to do. Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. Dale Carnegie