Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
– Henry Ford

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
– Gustave Flaubert

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
– Thomas Jefferson

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child’s attention, it’s worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
– Newton N. Minow

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.In times when the passions are beginning to take charge of the conduct of human affairs, one should pay less attention to what men of experience and common sense are thinking than to what is preoccupying the imagination of dreamers.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.
– John Quinton

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
– George Bernard Shaw

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.
– Maya Angelou

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
– Rene Descartes

Remember how long thou hast been putting off these things, and how often thou hast received an opportunity from the gods, and yet dost not use it. Thou must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a part, and of what administrator of the universe thy existence is an efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.
– Marcus Aurelius

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
– Linda Ellerbee

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. –
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good it is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are now subjugated.
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

The New York Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country …
– Robert J. Woodhead

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statues of marble or brass will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues … But print and reprint a thought a thousand times over, and that with materials of any kind … the thought is eternally and identically the same thought in every case.
– Thomas Paine

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made; Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
– Robert Browning

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
– Robert Byrne

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I’m going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)
– Richard M. Nixon

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
– Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898

Louis was the king of France
Before the revolution…
But then he got his head cut off
Which spoiled his constitution…
– Haul Away, Joe (Traditional/Almanac Singers – 1880s/1941)

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
– Adlai Ewing Stevenson

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with a Bonaparte at their head and disposing of all the treasure of the earth, our own excepted, could not by force make a track on the Blue Ridge or take a drink from the Ohio in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide.
– Abraham Lincoln

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
– Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
– Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982)

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

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

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? Wilt thou never enjoy an affectionate and contented disposition? Wilt thou never be full and without a want of any kind, longing for nothing more, nor desiring anything, either animate or inanimate, for the enjoyment of pleasures? Nor yet desiring time wherein thou shalt have longer enjoyment, or place, or pleasant climate, or society of men with whom thou mayest live in harmony? But wilt thou be satisfied with thy present condition, and pleased with all that is about thee, and wilt thou convince thyself that thou hast everything and that it comes from the gods, that everything is well for thee, and will be well whatever shall please them, and whatever they shall give for the conservation of the perfect living being, the good and just and beautiful, which generates and holds together all things, and contains and embraces all things which are dissolved for the production of other like things? Wilt thou never be such that thou shalt so dwell in community with gods and men as neither to find fault with them at all, nor to be condemned by them?
– Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
– Charles Buxton

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

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
– Rabbinic Saying

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
– Oscar Wilde

The way you explore complex ecosystems is you try lots of things and you hope that everybody who fails, fails informatively.
– Clay Shirky

It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen

Egotism, n. Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
– Ambrose Bierce

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
– Richard Feynman

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
– H. Jackson Brown

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
– Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
– Gustave Flaubert

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
– Peter Drucker

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
– Harold Coffin

I think laughter may be a form of courage…. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
– Linda Ellerbee

Eagles don’t flock – you have to find them one at a time.
– Henry Ross Perot