Clock Quotes
clock | August 24, 2007Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
- Louisa May Alcott
clock | August 23, 2007The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
- Fred Allen
clock | August 22, 2007Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy, mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
- Brooks Atkinson
clock | August 21, 2007A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
- Andrea Dworkin
clock | August 20, 2007Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
- Thomas Jefferson
clock | August 19, 2007When we compare the present life of man with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the flight of a lone sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you sit in the winter months. This sparrow flies swiftly in one door of the hall and out through another. Similarly, man appears on earth for a little while, but we know nothing of what went on before this life, and what follows.
- The Venerable Bede
clock | August 18, 2007We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
clock | August 17, 2007I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
- Oscar Wilde
clock | August 16, 2007Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
- Stephen King
clock | August 15, 2007Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
clock | August 14, 2007There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
- Daniel Joseph Boorstin
clock | August 13, 2007There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht
clock | August 11, 2007Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
- Millard Fuller
clock | August 10, 2007Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
- Miguel de Cervantes
clock | August 9, 2007In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
- Mary Renault
clock | August 8, 2007For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations: deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
- Mary Austin
clock | August 7, 2007I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multicolored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
clock | August 6, 2007When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
clock | August 5, 2007In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
- Luigi Pirandello