Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ), O Magazine, January 2004

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston (1947 – ), For Better or For Worse, 07-22-06

If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough.
Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.c
M. C. Escher (1898 – 1972), Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Mansfield Park

There are two kinds of light–the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber (1894 – 1961)

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603)

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’
Steven Wright (1955 – )

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, ‘A Woman of Independent Means’

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus (372 BC – 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker (1572 – 1632)

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967)

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie (1947 – )

Death’s brother, Sleep.
Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC), Aeneid

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge.
– W. Willard Wirtz, US Secretary of Labor

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
– François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769

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

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

I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.
– Peter De Vries

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
– Coco Chanel, 1883 – 1971

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it’s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
– Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
– Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 – 1980

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert Heinlein

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike.
– German proverb

You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
– Bonnie Prudden

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
– Häfiz

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work – and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
– Dave Allen

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
– Golda Meir

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

The old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed. (Heinlein 1973)