Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new … program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
– Art Buchwald

You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.
– Woody Allen

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
– Earl Warren

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
– Earl Nightingale

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
– Earle Hitchner

True genius is being able to find that which has been there all the time.
– Gabrelas

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.
– Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (November 12, 1840-November 17, 1917)

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

People sleep, and when they die, they awake.
– Mohammed

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked, and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
– Oscar Wilde

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
– Francis Bacon

We usually see only the things we are looking for – so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

– Eric Hoffer

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
– George Bernard Shaw

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is the triumph of hope over experience.
– Marina Schinz

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
– Jennifer Unlimited

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.
– Woody Allen

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.”
– C. Northcote Parkinson

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Whatever you do, don’t give up. Because all you can do once you’ve given up is bitch. I’ve known some great bitchers in my time. With some it’s a passion, with others an art.
– Molly Ivins

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A week is a long time in politics.
– Harold Wilson

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.
– Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.
– Dave Barry

The daily arguments over putting away the toys or practicing the piano defeat us so easily. We see them coming yet they frustrate us time and time again. In many cases, we are mothers and fathers who have managed budgets and unruly bosses and done difficult jobs well through sheer tenacity and dogged preparation. So why are we unable to persuade someone three feet tall to step into six inches of water at bathtime?
– Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Avoid Quiet and Placid persons unless you are in Need of Sleep.
– National Lampoon

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
– Donald Foster

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It’s something that should be had on a daily basis.
– Sandra Bullock

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
– Leonard Hodgson

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
– Thornton Niven Wilder

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
– William Hazlitt

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
– William Feather

Do each daily task the best we can; act as tough the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
– William Feather

Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
– Helen Gahagan Douglas

I like the man who faces what he must,
With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fights the daily battle without fear.
– Sarah Knowles Bolton

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
– Rainer Maria Rilke

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.
– Richard A. Weatherwax

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
– Norman Douglas

Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
– New York Times

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
– Norman Douglas

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
– Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
– Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.
– Lord Liverpool

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities – that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
– Laurie E. Colwin

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living… a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
– Laurens van der Post