Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Quote by Thomas Otway

Topics: Clocks Quotes

No praying, it spoils business.

No praying, it spoils business.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by...

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never...

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never...

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that...

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by...

A watched clock never tells the time

A watched clock never tells the time

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once

That awkward moment when you're making a wish on 11:11 and you get interrupted by...

That awkward moment when you're making a wish on 11:11 and you get interrupted by...

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second...

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second...

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to...

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to...

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock,...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock,...

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my...

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my...

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night...

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night...