Category Archives: Clock Quotes

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

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
– Ralph W. Sockman

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
– Odetta

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
– Plutarch

That’s what life is like. You have to keep running on the treadmill of evolution or you fall off.
– Bill Nye, The Science Guy

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
– Denis Waitley

A good deal happens in a man’s life that he isn’t responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

– Lawrence Downs

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
– J. Donald Adams

I couldn’t remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand …
– Peter Oakley

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
– Martha Graham

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
– Francis Bacon

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
– John Lennon

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
– Leo C. Rosten

This is a tough game. There are times when you’ve got to play hurt, when you’ve got to block out the pain.
– Shaquille O’Neal

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don’t be too hard on yourself when you don’t do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
– Patty Sheehan

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
– Duke of Edinburgh

Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
– Rabindranath Tagore

But even in wartime, the Constitution doesn’t protect just freedom of popular speech, or the right to support the government, or the expression of political views that don’t make anyone mad.
– Steve Chapman

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you’ve a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.
– Margaret Lee Runbeck

Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
– Francis Bacon

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
– Mark Twain

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
– Larry Niven

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper
– George Orwell

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
– George Herbert Allen (1922-90)

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
– Richard Evelyn Byrd

Well, it’s amazing how time can so softly change your ways and make you look at things that can’t be seen. And how the years that roll by can start you listening not just to what they say, but what they mean.
– Michael Nesmith

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
– Sean O’Casey, Irish dramatist (1880 – 1964)

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.
– Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-1958)

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
– Jim Rohn

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
– Leon Trotsky

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
– Desiderius Erasmus

I don’t understand why Obama is abandoning the War on Science. It’s the only war we were winning.
– John Oliver, on The Daily Show

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
– Orson Welles, 1915 – 1985

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
– Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
– Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 – 1980

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
– William Faulkner, 1897 – 1962

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
– Sam Levenson, 1911 – 1980

I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.
– Elwyn Brooks White

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
– T. S. Eliot

The individual woman is required … a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self- respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
– Jeannette Rankin

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
– Miguel de Cervantes

I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I’ve discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times.
– Fred McFeely Rogers

There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the ‘end of time,’ or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it…. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.
– Thomas Paine

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
– Mark Twain

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
– Thomas Sowell

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
– Thurgood Marshall

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson