Bird Quote by Mark Twain

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

— Wilson Mizner

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember…

— Alan Coren

“A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once…

— Anne Rice

- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of…

— Ken Kesey

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound…

— William Faulkner

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

— Terry Pratchett

A watched clock never tells the time

— Proverb

“He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare…

— Ken Kesey

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

— Tillie Olsen

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

— Oda Nobunaga

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

— Susan Glaspell

“the clock is ticking”

— Chinua Achebe (Author