Category Archives: Clock Quotes

At bottom every man know well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

– French proverb

The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

– Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

– Faith Baldwin

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

– Edith Wharton

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

– Frances Watkins Harper

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

– Francis Bacon

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”

– Jeff Valdez

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

– Frances Rodman

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

– Florida Scott Maxwell

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
– Julia Child

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
– Pablo Picasso

A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name.
– Evan Esar

To pierce the curtain of the future, to give shape and visage to mysteries still in the womb of time, is the gift of the imagination. It requires poetic sensibilities with which judges are rarely endowed and which their education does not normally develop.
– Felix Frankfurter

“Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit.”
– John S. Nichols

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.
– Edgar Watson Howe

Article 249. It shall also be qualified as attempted murder the employment which may be made against any person of substances which, without causing actual death, produce a lethargic coma more or less prolonged. If, after the person had been buried, the act shall be considered murder no matter what result follows.
– Haitian Penal Code

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
– Edgar Watson Howe

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
– Edward de Bono

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
– Winston Churchill

“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.”
– Dave Platt

Without the Utopias of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first city…. Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
– Anatole France

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
– Andre Berthiaume

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
– Albert Einstein

One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
– Andre Gide

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
– Denis Waitley

For the first time ever in the history of mankind, the wilderness is safer than “civilization.”
– Faith Popcorn

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
– Faith Baldwin

A principle is one thing; a maxim or rule is another. A principle requires liberality; a rule says, “one tenth.” A principle says “forgive”; a rule defines “seven times.”
– F. W. Robertson

Faces are as legible as books, with this in their favor, that they may be perused in much less time, and are less liable to be misunderstood.
– F. Saunders

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
– Elizabeth II

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes its awakener.
– F. Marion Crawford

Sometimes we need to separate the facts and figures from the people we are dealing with, in order to make things work out.
– Everette Huskey

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
– Eric Hoffer

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
– Ethel Barrymore

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
– Ernest Hemingway

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.
– Erma Louise Bombeck

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
– Erich Fromm

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.
– Sharon Gold

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”
– Jeff Valdez

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
– Eric Hoffer

Trust also your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counselor. A man’s mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower.
– Ecclesiasticus

No thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
– Epictetus

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
– Emily Dickinson

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
– Elwyn Brooks White

The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity … When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
– Eloise Ristad

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing left to us in a bad time.
– Elwyn Brooks White

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
– Eliezer Wiesel