Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
– Tallulah Bankhead

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
– English proverb

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. Legend means, basically, bullshit.
– Joel Rosenberg

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
– Josh Billings

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
– Eric Hoffer

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
– Professor Scott Elledge

The most dangerous words in the English language are, “This time it’s different.”
– Sir John Templeton

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
– Doug Larson

No man whose sex life was satisfactory ever became a moral censor.
– Mina Loy

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
– Jerry Seinfeld

While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.
– F. D. Huntington

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.
– Jalal-Uddin Rumi

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
– Jacob Bigelow

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
– Jacques Barzun

Perfection is a waste of time.
– Kim De Coite

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
– Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865

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, 1921 – 1989

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

It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
– C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law, 1958

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
– Baltasar Gracian, 1601 – 1656

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
– Anatole France, 1844 – 1924

All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
– Peter M. Leschak

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
– Ida Scott Taylor

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
– William Shakespeare

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
– Marcus Aurelius

In former times it took dozens of clerks, secretaries, and administrators to create a bureaucratic milieu capable of diffusing responsibility for misinformation and disservices. Today thanks to desk-top information processors, small firms and agencies down to the neighborhood hardware store are finding it possible to emulate the bureaucratic style by blaming their disservices on their computer.
– Marvin Harris

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
– Garrison Keillor

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
– Huey Long

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
– Thomas Henry Huxley

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time.
– Merrick Furst

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.
– Kevin R. Hutson

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
– Herbert George Wells

The funny thing is that everything is science fiction at one time or another.
– Gene Roddenberry

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If by the time we are 60 we haven’t learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven’t grown old to much purpose.
– John Cowper Powys

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
– Jim Rohn

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
– Dr Who

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
– George Orwell

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
– Daniel Joseph Boorstin

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
– Louisa May Alcott

The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover’s Lane holding his own hand.
– Fred Allen

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy, mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
– Brooks Atkinson

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is “sensitive;” or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man’s life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture – in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
– Andrea Dworkin

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
– Thomas Jefferson

When we compare the present life of man with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the flight of a lone sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you sit in the winter months. This sparrow flies swiftly in one door of the hall and out through another. Similarly, man appears on earth for a little while, but we know nothing of what went on before this life, and what follows.
– The Venerable Bede

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
– T. S. Eliot

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
– Oscar Wilde

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
– Stephen King

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
– R. Buckminster Fuller