Category Archives: Clock Quotes

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
– Rebecca West

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
– Jack London

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
– Dale Carnegie

Alas! There is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
– Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
– Cornelia Otis Skinner

Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
– Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist (1857-1913)

“When I want to read a good novel, I write one”
— Benjamin Disraeli

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette

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

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
– Clarence Day

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

Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
– Clara Winston

I wanna do a better album each time. And if I cannot do that, I will not record.
– Celine Dion

When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “one word at a time.”
– Stephen King

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.
– Christopher Morley

You can’t put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you’ve made; some just need time to heal…
– Christina Montano

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
– Billy Wilder

Sometimes we are afraid to question because we confuse it with doubt, at times when doubt cannot be indulged. Questioning is not the same thing as doubting. …Living the questions requires a willingness to live with paradox, to endure confusion in our rational minds that only the intuitive mind can entertain: intuition accepts the paradox instead of changing it.
– Christina Baldwin

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts for support rather than illumination.”
– Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
– Chinese proverb

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
– Chinese proverb

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
– Mae West

May you always live in interesting times.
– Chinese proverb

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
– Mark Twain

Man must sit in chair with mouth open for very long time before roast duck fly in.
– Chinese proverb

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
– Forrest Tucker

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

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
– Charles, Count Talleyrand

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
– Chinese proverb

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
– Paul Keating

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
– Chinese proberb

He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.
-Samuel Johnson

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
– Cher

I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
-Irvin S. Cobb

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master – something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
– Charlotte Bronte

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
– John Bright

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing warm and racy; its afterflavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as it I had been poisoned.
– Charlotte Bronte

“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
– Comedian Kip Adota

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
– Charles Wadsworth

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… if you have one.”
– George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
– Winston Churchill, in response.

There’s time enough, but none to spare.
– Charles W. Chesnutt

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
– Oscar Wilde

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Robert Darwin

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
– Mark Twain

I’ve developed a new philosophy: I only dread one day at a time.
– Charles Monroe Schulz

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
– Moses Hadas

I have nothing against none of you.But it’s high time that you started looking at yourselves,and judging the lie you live in
– Charles Manson

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
– William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).