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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." »Pablo Picasso
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"Death is much like an alarm clock
except there is never a snooze button
to give you just a moment more,
before you really have to wake." »Ronnie Rickner
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"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day." »Sharon Gold
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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." »Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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"The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still." »Longfellow
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"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood." »Laurence Sterne
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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"Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone." »Author Unknown
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"Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think." »Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
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"Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think." »Robert Service
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"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day." »Polish Proverb
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"Even a stopped clock is right two times a day." »Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir
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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." »Bonnie Prudden
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"Dont sit like a rock,work like a clock." »vani
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"Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up." »William Hazlitt
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"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." »Lewis Thomas
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"People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking." »Steve Goodman
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"Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." »John Rogers
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"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." »Ben Hecht
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"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
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
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"Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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