Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society’s whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.
– John J. Miller

In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
– Henry David Thoreau

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
– Lou Brock

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
– Gertrude Stein

Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.
– Kobi Yamada

The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
– Sydney J. Harris

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
– Richard Whately

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
– J. P. McEvoy

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

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
– Dante Alighieri

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
– Jane Austen

Wanted: Young, skinny, wirey fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week.
– Pony Express Advertisement

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
– James Rowland Angell

The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said Excuse me to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.
– Sherri Chasin Calvo

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself – always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
– James Earl Carter, Jr

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
– Joanna Field

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
– Laurence J. Peter

[One sometimes feels] a guest of one’s time and not a member of its household.
– George Frost Kennan

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
– Jack London

Perfection is a waste of time.
– Kim De Coite

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
– Phyllis Diller

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
– Sir William Bragg

Every public action which is not customary either is wrong of if is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
– Francis MacDonald Cornford (1874-1943)

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
– Groucho Marx

I like Wagner’s music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.
– Oscar Wilde

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live – with your self-respect alive and growing.
– Maxwell Maltz

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
– John Milton

No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
– Dylan Thomas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.
– Moses Hadas

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
– M. Scott Peck

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.
– Bill Lemley

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
– Bill Vaughan

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
– Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter (1898-1983)

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
– Woody Allen

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
– Winston Churchill

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
– Zora Neale Hurston

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
– William Shakespeare

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
– W. Somerset Maugham

Life is so much more meaningful if you take the time to hunt down and strangle twits who post blather to inappropriate newsgroups.
– Henry Spencer

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel
– Carrie Fisher

Comedy is tragedy plus time.
– Carol Burnett

What we love to do we find time to do.
– John L. Spalding

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
– Douglas Noel Adams

Take time every day to do something silly.
– Philipa Walker

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
– John Milton

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
– Herbert Clark Hoover

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
– Louis Kronenberger

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
– Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
– James E. Shapiro

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Times is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
– Robert Herrick