Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.
– Steven Wright

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic, that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ‘Here comes number seventy-one!’
– Richard M. Devos

Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated – or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.
– M. I. Abramowitz

If I get my facts wrong, let me know. If you don’t like my tone, tough. At this bus stop in the blogosphere, I’m Queen Cunt of Fuck Mountain, and I’m mean for a reason. Once we get our country back on the right track, there will be plenty of time for nursery rhymes.
Melissa McEwan, March 31, 2005

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
– Milton Friedman

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
– Margot Asquith

If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field’s employment market is glutted.
– Marguerite Emmons

I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.
– Sue Hubbell

O what a bursting out there was,
And what a blossoming,
When we had all the summer-time
And she had all the spring!
– William Butler Yeats

God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at the same time.
– Robin Williams

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
– Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim – when he defends himself – as a criminal.
– Frederic Bastiat

Freedom is a powerful animal that fights the barriers, and sometimes makes people wish for higher fences.
– Lance Morrow

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
– Barack Obama, President-Elect

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
– Benjamin Franklin

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope … and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
– Robert F. Kennedy

$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
– Robert Anson Heinlein

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
– Margaret Thatcher

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
– Margaret Mead

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it…To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
– Thomas Jefferson

We have got but one life here. It pays, no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.
– Theodore Roosevelt

In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
– Louise Bogan

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
– John Barrymore

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships, and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
– Ambrose Bierce

Family values are a little like family vacations – subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it’s often the momentary rainbows that we remember.
– Leslie Dreyfous

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
– George Orwell

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
– Otto von Bismarck

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
– Eugene McCarthy

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.
– Edward Hoagland

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and, because it takes a man’s life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
– Ernest Hemingway

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
– Henry David Thoreau

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man: yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair’s breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.
– Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1810 – 1891

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
– Paramahansa Yogananda

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
– Chuang Tzu, 369 – 286 BC

When young, we trust ourselves too much; and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth; timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes – the ripe and fertile season of action when, only, we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.
– Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 – 1832

Increase of freedom in the State may sometimes promote mediocrity, and give vitality to prejudice; it may even retard useful legislation, diminish the capacity for war, and restrict the boundaries of Empire…. A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor and weak, and of no account, but free; rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
– Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
– Cornelia Otis Skinner

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
– Booth Tarkington, 1869 – 1946

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
– Margaret B. Johnstone

A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It’s not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
– Dr. Frank N. Furter

What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
– Thomas Jefferson

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field’s employment market is glutted.
– Marguerite Emmons