Clock Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles,…

— Thomas Jefferson

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it;…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies”

— Neil Postman

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are…

— William Penn

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

— Polish Proverb

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

— Golda Meir

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

— Paulo Coelho

I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I…

— L. Neil Smith

“And time is something we made up. Digital clocks, quartz watches, atomic clocks don’t measure ‘time’ they are just devices that exhibit change. Clocks…

— martin gover

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

— Thomas Otway

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all…

— Orhan Pamuk