Best time & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”

Mean Hands Time Watches Thirds Down And Slow Down Second Hand

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Hands Time Speak Sun Paper Slave Ridiculous Circles Curse Silver Dictatorship Overrated Second Hand Knobs

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.”

Hands Lying Time Turns Virtue Creatures Wretched Covetousness Uneasiness Prodigals

Author:Joseph Addison

“Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.”

Hands Time Hours Minutes Events Mark Great Events Small Events

Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay

“For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?”

Ifs Life Doe Ends Hands Lasts Time Fall Change Sleep Ability Destruction Eternity Occasions Midst Desirable Extinction Fatigue Last Day Abode Deep Sleep

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.”

Hands Time Pieces Cutting Clock Dislike Second Hand Small Pieces

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.”

Knows Hands Joy Time Cold Sorrow Deeper Ice Indifferent Labyrinth Time Passes

Author:Johann Ludwig Tieck

“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.”

Source: A child of the century

“Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .”

Real Hands Time Fall House Religious Democracy Land Presses Rome Villain Monasteries Serfs Henry Viii Henry V Feudal System

Author:John Adams

“How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.”

Real Hands Science Time Understanding Theory Development Tools Mathematics Method Complicated Math Invention Mathematical Casting Hand In Hand

Author:David Hilbert

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”

Men Littles Hands Success Time Inspiring Effort Achievement Patience Perseverance Thrown Achieved Success Patience And Perseverance Time And Patience Time Patience

Book:Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

“God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.”

World Wells God Hands Time Nations History Modern Instruments Chosen Empires Rulers Theologian Modern World Roman Empire Instruments Of God

Author:John Gresham Machen

“I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.”

People Hands Time Hours Waste Busy Corners Hats Carpe Diem Seize The Day Waste Of Life Wasted Time In Life

Author:Bernard Berenson

“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”

People Hands Time Business Waste

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

Hands Time Goal Degrees Perfection Excellence Perfectionist Perfection And Imperfection Self Perfection

Author:Voltaire

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”

Life Inspirational Firsts Made Whole Shows Hands Motivational Age Lasts Time Grows Half Youth Aging Planning Our Time Trust In God Growing Old Funny Marriage Best Is Yet To Come

Author:Robert Browning

“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”

World Giving Persons I Can Done Hands Time Education Demand Prove Laughter Intention Harm Aphorism Educator Reproach

Book:The diaries of Franz Kafka

Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka

“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”

World Want Should May Hands Age Time Next Meditation This World Aging Graves Old Age Awful Urgent

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

Inspirational Hands Motivational Action Lying Time Business Vision Distance Priorities Long Distance Famous Inspirational

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.”

People Wells Children Hands Young Time Old People Young Children Unfaithful

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

Hands Time Water

Book:Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.”

Hands Time Arms Shakes Host Guests Parting Fashionable

Author:William Shakespeare

“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.”

Heart Done Helping Hands Time Forever My Heart Kissing Glad Former Shakes Vow Brows Former Love

Author:Michael Drayton

“He hath shook hands with time.”

Hands Time

Author:John Ford

“Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.”

Hands Age Time Secret Old Age Factories Getting Old Old Time Youth And Old Age Secret Places Concept Of Time Place And Time Spinner

Book:Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9

Source: Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9

“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”

Hands Eye Age Time Voice White Wind Broken Aging Legs Wit Dry Yellow Cheeks Belly Beard Chins Antiquity

Author:William Shakespeare

“People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.”

People Hands Time Productivity Time Management

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

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