Category Archives: Clock Quotes

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.
– A. M. Rosenthal

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
– A. E. Houseman

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal.
– Jerome P. Fleishman

In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
– Homer

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
– Alice Meynell

Annual consumption is a function of people’s expected lifetime earnings – not just their income at the current time.
– Milton Friedman

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
– Anthony Trollope

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
– George Carlin

Only when an organization exists in stable circumstances, when its operations resemble clockwork, unvarying in their practices, can individuals be taken for granted or ignored without peril.
– Rosabeth Moss-Kanter

Quiet minds can’t be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep,
will make me sleep again;
and then, in dreaming,
the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me;
that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
– William Shakespeare

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

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

We have entered the era of the imperial former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
– Lawton Chiles

All are equal in birth and in death. Differences arise only during the interval. The Emperor and the beggar are both born naked; they sleep equally silently; they bow out without even leaving their new address. Then how can their reality be different? There can be no doubt on this score. All are basically the same.
– Atharva Veda

The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, “I love children because they’re so honest.” There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent’s signature like a child.
– Bill Cosby

You can’t go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don’t sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don’t get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don’t have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.
– Billy Joel

Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
– Ringo Starr

When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
– Zsa Zsa Gabor

She realizes she doesn’t know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
– Dorothy Parker, 1893 – 1967

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he’s crooked.
– Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx, 1890 – 1977

There is only one way … to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
– Dale Carnegie, 1888 – 1955

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
– Alan Stewart Paton, 1903 – 1988

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
– Raymond Chandler, 1888 – 1959

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make is so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
– C. A. R. Hoare

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you’ll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
– Bliss Carman, 1861 – 1929

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
– Raymond Chandler

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness – not crimes and scandals.
– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.
– Horace Walpole

I have no fear of death, Must be wonderful, like a long sleep. But let’s face it: it’s how you live that really counts.
– Katharine Hepburn

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.
– Yiddish proverb

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
– Woody Allen

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.
– Wilson Mizner

… We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
– William Shakespeare William Shakespeare

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
– William Penn

For me the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep at night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.
– William N. Lipscomb, Jr.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
– William Hazlitt

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
– William Golding

And the sea shall grant all men new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.
– Christopher Columbus

Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
– William A. Ward

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
– Welsh proverb

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
– Warren Zevon

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you’ve known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night’s sleep?
– Walter Frederick Mondale

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
– Walt Whitman

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.
– Walt Disney’s Cinderella

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
– W. C. Fields

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
– Victor Hugo

The reason a man must awaken is because it is dangerous to sleep, as man’s present life proves.
– Vernon Howard

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
– Ursula K. Le Guin