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A watched clock never tells the time


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NICHOLSON BAKER Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
JAMES CASH PENNEY A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going ari...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN I rushed it. There was probably more time than I thought. But we'd had three or four chances already...
BRENT HEEMSKERK Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s a monster that has always appalled me becau...
JACQUES VACHé Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. W...
JOHN FOWLES Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING A watched pot never boils
PROVERB Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.
SHANE SMITH If you claim to be ahead of time, please check the clock. If the clock shows time, then either you a...
APURVA GAGLANI Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.
IRISH PROVERB I never watched 'Harper's Island.'
DAVE FOLEY Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is...
JAY GRIFFITHS Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Ne...
AMBROSE BIERCE Mozart never watched Baby Mozart , and Einstein never watched Baby Einstein , ... We're subject to t...
SHIFRIN Mozart never watched Baby Mozart , and Einstein never watched Baby Einstein . We're subject to the d...
DON SHIFRIN The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
BEN FOLDS A clock does not care how we spend our time, it simply does it's job and continues ticking.
FAISAL KHOSA Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
TONY SOPRANO Day is just a collection of hours.
SERJ TANKIAN There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.
SADIE JONES I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
JANE LYNCH When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!
KE$HA A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
FULTON J. SHEEN Life's Irony;The Clock provides humanity time & even though all numbers 1-12 are residing inside the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If a photon is emitted by an electron inside of a clock on Earth and it travels to a clock four ligh...
R.A.DELMONICO You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.
VIKRANT PARSAI One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
OSCAR WILDE A watched pot never boils.... but it does develop paranoia
JOSH STERN The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
BEN FOLDS A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB In my 36 years experience, I've never been under any kind of clock, chess or otherwise. Judges move ...
ALAN KLEIN Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no.
ANDREW SMITH Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS Nobody is right all the time and a broken clock is right twice a day.
BILL CLINTON I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a m...
ANSEL ELGORT Time tells everything, and everything takes time
STEVEN J RINGELSTETTER They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM It tells a story of this lost time.
JEFF BARNES Just like the clock,a penny can become a million,it's one step at a time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid...
MARCEL DIONNE My day begins a little before 6 A.M. I never set an alarm clock.
DAVID H. MURDOCK The clock has decided to take time into its own hands.
CBJ Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman fe...
SLOANE CROSLEY 'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.
CHARLIE ROWE A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.
DAVE WILLIS The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we c...
DEAN INGE Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
DAVE WINFIELD Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me...
DAN BROWN Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS There's never one number that tells you the end-all.
DOUG FLYNN A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, Geo...
DENNIS MILLER My father never did any of the things that my friends’ fathers did with them. We never tossed a fo...
SUSAN FORWARD I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.
CHRISTINE ARRON History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell th...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell th...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Lasting wealth is made gradually,over time,just the way the clock ticks.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take...
PAULO COELHO People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
DAVID BROOKS Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
MARY PARRISH I watched the ice hockey and never even glanced at the speed skating.
CHAD HEDRICK I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
ADAM DRIVER All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war...
JOHN HERSEY Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it ju...
JESSE JACKSON A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.
R.J. LAWRENCE Just as the three hands of a clock are seamlessly working together to provide man with accurate time...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tell...
DAN BROWN It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end ...
VANCE HAVNER You never know until the time runs off the clock. We played good defense as if there was another pos...
JAMAAL MAGLOIRE The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for societ...
JAY GRIFFITHS I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched &#...
ERIC ANDRE When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock
SOURCE UNKNOWN Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
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