Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Time is a young man with ballplayer legs, time runs a winning race against life and the clocks, time tickles with rust and spots.
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.
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night
The Bells at Distance called --
But Epoch had no basis here
For Period exhaled.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Hands of clocks turn to noon hours and each floor
empties its men and women who go away and eat
and come back to work.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories