Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Get a good night’s sleep and don’t bug anybody without asking me.
– Richard M. Nixon

For I see now that I am asleep – that I dream when I am awake.
– Pedro Calder n de la Barca

I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
– Mrs. Robert A. Taft (nee Martha Wheaton Bowers)

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
– Plutarch

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat in a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
– Nelson Algren

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging urge to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
– Mark Twain

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
– W. Somerset Maugham

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
– Alan Alexander Milne

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
– Crowfoot

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay in the narrow path she helped make, following the contour of the land, but she often profits by staying with it and she would be handicapped if she didn’t know where it was or where it led to.
– Elwyn Brooks White

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
– Clive Staples Lewis

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought!
– Stephen King

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it
– Mark Twain

Who ever thought up the word “Mammogram?” Every time I hear it, I think I’m supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
– Jan King

I loathe the expression ‘What makes him tick’ … A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
– James Thurber

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
– James Taylor

Try not to have a good time, this is supposed to be educational.
– Charles Monroe Schulz

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
– Hubert H. Humphrey

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)
– Horace

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
– Guy Davenport

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
– Jean de La Fontaine

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
– Victor Hugo

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
– Hippocrates

Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it.
– Richard Feynman

You must remember this,
A kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.
– Herman Hupfeld

I don’t have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
– Charles de Gaulle

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
– Benjamin Disraeli

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
– William Shakespeare

If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head.
– Hakim Jami (1414-92)

Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.
– Dr. Lillian Troll

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
– Dr. M. Scott Peck

Gosh that takes me back … or forward. That’s the trouble with time travel, you never can tell.
– Dr. Who

To be happy, drop the words ‘if only,’ and substitute instead the words ‘next time.’
– Dr. Smiley Blanton

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
– Johann Sebastian Bach

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.
– Joe Walsh

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.
– Jimmy Connors

I’m the one who has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
– Jimi Hendrix

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
– Henry David Thoreau

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.
– Helen Rowland

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
– Henri-Frederic Amiel

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
– Henri Bergson

Love can sometimes be like magic. But magic can sometimes … just be an illusion.
– Javan

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The curricula were unsophisticated, with a great deal of time wasted on penmanship and geography in the early grades and repetitions of the trivial history of New York City in higher grades.
– Martin Lewis Perl

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
– Sydney J. Harris

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
– Miguel de Cervantes

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
– Michelle Mastrolacasa