Category Archives: Clock Quotes

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
– Robin Williams

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.
– Ronald Wilson Reagan

The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs.’
– Roy Blount, Jr.

The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature’s longings.
– Ruth Bernhard

Words mean what they’re generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral for the first time, he called it “awful, pompous, and artificial.” Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
– S. M. Stirling

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
– Samuel Butler

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax or of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
– Dr Samuel Johnson

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.
– Stella Benson

The only thing I’d rather own than Windows is English. Then I’d be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
– Scott McNealy

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.
– Sidney Goff

The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven … I almost went back in time.
– Steven Wright

One must learn a different … sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
– Sister Mary Paul

Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man that has great advantages from nature and birth; whether the weight and number of so many men’s thoughts and actions may not suppress his own or hinder the motion and agitation of them, from which all invention arises; as heaping on wood, or too many sticks, or too close together, suppresses, and sometimes quite extinguishes a little spark, that would otherwise have grown up to a noble flame.
– Sir William Temple

Politicians are quite unfit for government. They are however very useful for ceremonial banquets, official openings, launchings, unveilings, and greeting foreign delegations, leaving more time for the genuine work of government to those of us who have the proper training and experience.
– Sir Humphrey Appleby

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
– Sir John Lubbock

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
– Sir William Haley

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, it’s not the time that matters but how you answer the door.
– Steve Gray

Income-tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
– Shelby Friedman

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
– Spanish proverb

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
– Socrates

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
– Travis Walton

I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
– Ursula K. Le Guin

What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It’s innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
– Vicomte de Valmont

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
– Benjamin Franklin

If it bends, it’s funny; if it breaks, it’s not funny.
– Woody Allen

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
– Frank Vanderlip

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
– Oliver Goldsmith

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
– Nancy Astor

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
– Pericles

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
– Iris Murdoch

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
– J. Michael Straczynski

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
– Garrison Keillor

Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
– Mark Twain

People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
– John Miller

Lost time is never found again.
– John H. Aughey

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.
– O. Henry

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
– Francis H. Bradley

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
– Kingman Brewster, Jr

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
– Jacob August Riis

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
– Robert Orben

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: What is my exciting thing for today? Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.
– Barbara Charline Jordan

Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually, it loiters; but just when one has come to count on its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild, irrational gallop.
– Edith Wharton, 1862 – 1937

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Robert Darwin, 1809 – 1882

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
– Charles F. Kettering, 1876 – 1958

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
– Charles Buxton, 1823 – 1871

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
– Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier), 1868 – 1951

Was there a weight attached to the wheel of time, hanging from the month of May? Time went so slowly the rest of the year, as though it shoved a weight before it. In April, the wheel was in balance and didn’t want to go further. It tipped back to winter or could give a hint of summer. But when May came, the weight began to pull and it was difficult to hang on. And before you knew it, it was summer.
– Kari Boge

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