Category Archives: Clock Quotes

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, ‘How dull is the world today!’ Nowadays he says, ‘What a dull newspaper!’
– Daniel Joseph Boorstin

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
– Bertolt Brecht

I cannot sleep – great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
– Fanny Burney

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
– Millard Fuller

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man’s thoughts.
– Miguel de Cervantes

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
– Mary Renault

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations: deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
– Mary Austin

I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multicolored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
– Malcolm Muggeridge

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
– Lyndon Baines Johnson

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
– Luigi Pirandello

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
– Lora Bolden

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
– Lillian Hellman

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
– Leonardo da Vinci

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
– Lady Murasaki

and so this tree
Oh, that such our death may be!
Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
To live in happier form again:
From which, beneath Heaven s fairest star,
The artist wrought this loved guitar;
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are two kinds of people in the world: the Givers and the Takers. The difference between the two is that the Takers eat well, and the Givers sleep well at night.
– Joy Mills

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
– John Steinbeck

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
– John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
– John Hogan

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.
– Jeff Ayers

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
– Jack London

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
– Irish proverb

Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
– Homer

Sleep. Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
– Henny Youngman

The two best physicians of them all – Dr Laughter and Dr Sleep.
– Gregory Dean Jr

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
– Gordie Howe

I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.
– Georges Jacques Danton (1759-94)

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one has to stay awake all day.
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Work ’em hard, play ’em hard, feed ’em up to the nines and send ’em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are on the pillow.
– Frank L. Boyden

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
– Charles Dickens

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
– Fran Lebowitz

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there’s a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
– Erma Louise Bombeck

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
– English Proverb

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night’s sleep.
– Edgar Watson Howe

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
– E. Joseph Cossman

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.
– Dicky Barrett

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
– De Musset

To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.
– Chinese proverb

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk and go to heaven!
– Brian O’Rourke

Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep.
– Brian Koslow

# Diary, n. A daily record of that part of one’s life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
– Ambrose Bierce

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
– Anatole France

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
– Bill Cosby

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
– Aeschylus

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
– Abraham Lincoln

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you: You do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.
– Sharon Gold