Category Archives: Clock Quotes

I have made this a rather long letter because I haven’t had time to make it shorter.
– Blaise Pascal

Redeem thy mis-spent time that’s past:
Live this day, a if ’twere they last.
– Bishop Thomas Ken

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve. As, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting; laboring too much to little purpose; as good no scythe as no edge.
– Bishop Joseph Hall

Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you’re going to do with your time while you are here.
– Bill T. Jones

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
– Calvin – Bill Watterson ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

The task of government in this enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems. Solving problems might put bureaucrats out of work. No, the task of government is to make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the maximum number of consultants and bureaucrats employed dealing with them.
– Bob Emmers

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
– Bill Bryson

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
– Betty Smith

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
– Bette Davis

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
– Baltasar Gracian

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
– Beryl Markham

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
– Bertrand Russell

It is the time we have now, and all our wasted time sinks into the sea and is swallowed up without a trace. The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.
– John Ashbery

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation.
– Bertrand Russell

It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
– Bertrand de Jouvenal

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
– Bert Murray

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
– Bernard Baruch

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
– Benjamin McLane Spock

It isn’t what you know that counts, it’s what you think of in time.
– Benjamin Franklin

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
– Benjamin Disraeli

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
– Bat Masterson

I went on a diet – had to go on two diets at the same time ’cause one diet wasn’t giving me enough food.
– Barry Marter

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.
– Barbara Bush

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn’t always stay the same.
– Barbara Hershey

May every young scientist remember… and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
– Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897-1974)

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: What is my exciting thing for today? Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.
– Barbara Charline Jordan (b. 1936)

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
– Baltasar Gracian

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
– Augustine of Hippo

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
– Francois Auguste Rene Rodin

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
– Arthur Schopenhauer

The time comes when you realize that you haven’t only been specializing in something – something has been specializing in you.
– Arthur Miller

So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. ‘The days of struggle are over,’ I should be able to say. ‘I can look back now and tell myself I don’t have a single regret.’ But I do. Many.
– Arthur Marx

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
– Arthur Conan Doyle

All the best stories are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
– Arthur Christopher Benson

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
– Arthur C. Clarke

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
– Arthur C. Benson

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
– Art Buchwald

I don’t possess a lot of self-confidence. I’m an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
– Arsenio Hall

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
– Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
– Arnold H. Glasgow

It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
– Aristotle

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life – to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
– Archibald MacLeish

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
– Ansel Adams

I sometimes think Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the common people.
– Archbishop of Canterbury

Time isn’t a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they’re really asking for a chunk of your life.
– Antoinette Bosco

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.
– Anthony Robbins

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
– Anselm Feuerbach

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
– Ansel Adams