Clock Quotes

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. (H. G. Wells)
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. View quote
Ben Hecht
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. View quote
William Blake
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. View quote
Emily Brontë
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. View quote
William Hazlitt
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. View quote
Georg Büchner
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock it takes more than wit to become an author. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. (Rodney Dangerfield)
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. View quote
Grace Hopper
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. View quote
Orson Welles
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. View quote
William Faulkner
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. View quote
Golda Meir
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka