Category Archives: Clock Quotes

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn’t be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)
– Ronald Wilson Reagan

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
– Psalm 127:2 Bible

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wouldn’t call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.
– Edward Zehr

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
– Margaret Thatcher

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
– Bruce Graham

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
– C. Northcote Parkinson

One way to make sure everyone gets to work on time would be to have 95 parking spaces for every 100 employees.
– Michael Iapoce

Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
– John Ruskin

Walk softly and carry a big magnifying glass.
– Richard Lacayo

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.
– Eudora Welty

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
– Ernest Menaul

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
– Theodor Seuss Geisel

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
– Henry David Thoreau

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.
– Gail Kathleen Godwin

We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
– Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)

The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it’s time to turn off the sound.
– Pat Elphinstone

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
– Henry Lewis Mencken

Although you may remain somewhere for a long time,
It is certain that you will have to leave;
Whatever may be the manner of parting,
The actual going cannot be avoided.
– Nagarjuna

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
– Rebecca West

Despite the warnings of the ancient Greeks – nothing in excess – there are a few things in the world that you just can’t have too much of. In addition to currency, I would mention, in no particular order, health, warm weather, ice-cream flavors, free time, second chances, and good taste.
– Joe McGarvey, Inter@ctive Week

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
– Thomas Dekker

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
– Norman Ford

You know the great thing about TV? If something important happens anywhere at all in the world, no matter what time of the day or night, you can always change the channel.
– Jim Ignatowski

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
– Jewish proverb

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
– Ellen Perry Berkeley

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.
– Judith M. Knowlton

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
– George Herbert

I’m an early bird, and I’m a night owl. So I’m wise and have worms.
– Michael Scott

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
– Michael Landon

My Birthday! what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
– Thomas Moore

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free or to be slaves.
– George Washington

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
– Joseph Wood Krutch

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
– John Wanamaker

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
– John Hoyer Updike

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
-Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
– Marge Piercy

The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.
– Jane O’Reilly

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age … although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
– Mrs. Alec-Tweedie

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
– Anonymous

“One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll

Acquit me, or do not acquit me, but be sure that I shall not alter my way of life, no, not if I have to die for it many times.
– Socrates

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
– Henry Louis Mencken

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
– John Fowles

Sometimes … when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)
– Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931)

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
– Hippolyte Taine

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
– Natalie Clifford Barney

Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor’s hat until it’s grey like a dunce’s cap.
– Franz Grillparzer

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
– Richard Feynman

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer