Category Archives: Clock Quotes

It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man’s insignificance in the long eternity of time; the deserts speak of his insignificance right now.
– Edwin Way Teale

“I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.”
– Jean Couteau

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness
– Edward Stanley

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
– Edward S. Martin

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
– Edward P. Tryon

There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area called the Twilight Zone.
– Rod Serling

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
– Edward Everett Hale

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
– Edward de Bono

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

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
– Edgard Varese

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
– Edgar Watson Howe

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart; one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
– Edgar Allan Poe

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
– Ecclesiastes 9:11

The future comes one day at a time.
– Dean Acheson

Courage changes things for the better…[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
– Earl Nightingale

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time.
– E. R. Eddison

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram.
– E. P. Whipple

“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”
– Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
– Elwyn Brooks White

There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
– Duke Ellington

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger

This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
– Douglas Noel Adams

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

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 is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
– Don Marquis

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
– Dr Samuel Johnson

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can – and surely will at times – fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
– Dr Joyce Brothers

Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
– Douglas Noel Adams

I have always been waiting for something better – sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.
– Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
– Dorothy Hamill

Of course I don’t always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.
– Dorothy DeBolt

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
– Don Marquis

At this time of day, in the twilight, there is no wind. At this time there is only power.
– Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
– Dion Boucicalt

When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.
– Diane Ackerman

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave’s generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to “easy listening” rock ‘n’ roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.
– Dave Barry

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
– Albert Einstein

We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as Why did this happen to me? into There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.
– Dee Wallace Stone

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
– Dean Acheson

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
– Dax Ward

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
– David Viscott

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to-the-minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.
– David Letterman

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand – the one doing the important job – unnoticed.
– David K. Shipler

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
– Dave Sim

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

If God had wanted us to spend all our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have created beer. This is not to say that I am recommending that you totally ignore your responsibilities as a homeowner and just sit around all day with a can of beer in your hand. No indeed, I have long been a believer in purchasing bottled beer, and pouring it into a chilled glass.
– Dave Barry

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
– Darryl F. Zanuck

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
– Daniel Webster

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
– Dale Carnegie