Category Archives: Clock Quotes

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend ten shillings on a hotel.
– Truman Capote

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
– Stewart Alsop

If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease: If the mind retains its absoluteness, The ten thousand things are of one suchness.
– Seng-T’San (540-606 AD)

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
– Pierre Elliott Trudeau

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night.
– Otto von Bismarck

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
– Clive Staples Lewis

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They’re willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There’s a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they’re willing to spend on it.
– Joyce Brothers

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
– Rose Macaulay

Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all; not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.
– Bhagavad Gita (c. BC 400)

Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes kills the very soul within us; but it is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
– Ouida

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one’s lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
– Percy Johnston

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time; disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.
– Oliver Bevan

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.
– James Russell Lowell

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
– Thomas C. Haliburton

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
– Thomas Fuller

Something unpredictable but in the end it’s right, I hope you have the time of your life.
– Greenday

It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.
– Greek proverb

If you spend too much time warming up, you’ll miss the race. If you don’t warm up at all, you may not finish the race.
– Grand Heidrich

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is, well, to kill emotion. I don’t think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore – or love.
– Graham Greene

I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say we’ve always done it that way, my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.
– Grace Murray Hopper

Better to strive and climb, And never reach your goal, Than to drift along with time – An aimless, worthless soul, Aye better to climb and fall Or sow, though the yield be small, Than to throw away day after day And never strive at all.
– Grace B. Hinkey

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
– Governor George W. Bush

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
– Golo Mann

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
– Gladys Taber

Once upon a time a man dragged his father from their house and as they reached a tree his father cried Stop! I did not drag my own father past this tree!
– Gertrude Stein

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
– Geri Weitzman

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
– Gerald W. Johnson

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
– Gerald Jampolsky

Nobody sees a flower, really – it is so small – we haven’t time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
– Georgia O’Keeffe

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
– George Washington

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage – and that’s the same thing.
– George Lorimer

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
– George J. Seidel

Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
– George Gordon Noel Byron

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
– Anonymous

Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
– Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
– Margaret Mead

Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.
– Nina Berberova

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
– Unknown

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
– Robert Benchley

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
– Ambrose Bierce

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
– Mildred McAfee (1900-1994); academic, served as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy.
[thanks to Joey]

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
– Peter Quennell

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it: always.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
– Mark Yost

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
– Adlai Ewing Stevenson

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
– A. Toffler

There is nothing good about blindly abiding to certain paradigms, simply because you were instructed by authoritative figures from the stages of infancy to do so …
– Vanesh Naidoo

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
– Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy