Clock Quotes
clock | July 18, 2010At bottom every man know well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
clock | July 16, 2010The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
- Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
clock | July 15, 2010It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
clock | July 13, 2010If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
clock | July 12, 2010Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
- Frances Watkins Harper
clock | July 11, 2010He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
clock | July 10, 2010"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez
clock | July 9, 2010Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
- Frances Rodman
clock | July 8, 2010You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
- Florida Scott Maxwell
clock | July 6, 2010The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
- Julia Child
clock | July 5, 2010Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
- Pablo Picasso
clock | July 4, 2010A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
- Evan Esar
clock | July 3, 2010To pierce the curtain of the future, to give shape and visage to mysteries still in the womb of time, is the gift of the imagination. It requires poetic sensibilities with which judges are rarely endowed and which their education does not normally develop.
- Felix Frankfurter
clock | July 1, 2010If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.
- Edgar Watson Howe
clock | June 30, 2010Article 249. It shall also be qualified as attempted murder the employment which may be made against any person of substances which, without causing actual death, produce a lethargic coma more or less prolonged. If, after the person had been buried, the act shall be considered murder no matter what result follows.
- Haitian Penal Code
clock | June 29, 2010Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
- Edgar Watson Howe
clock | June 28, 2010Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
- Edward de Bono