49 Quotes About Clocks

Clocks are reflective of the passing of time. These quotes about clocks capture how easily time continues to move forward.

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

“A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.”

“A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.”

“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”

“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”

“Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.”

“Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

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

“Digital clocks took the space out of time.”

“Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!”

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

“I get all my good ideas sort of at one o’ clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.”

“I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.”

“I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won’t take me by surprise.”

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

“I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.”

“I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.”

“I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”

“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”

“I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late start without me.”

“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”

“In any case, you can’t turn back the clock.”

“It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn’t lie.”

“Knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.”

“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

“No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up!”

“No clock is more regular than the belly.”

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.”

“The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.”

“The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.This is your life and the clock is ticking.”

“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”

“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.”

“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”

“There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We’re all transparent against the face of the clock.”

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

“Time – whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist’s waiting room is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.”

“Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.”

“Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.”

“Turn the clock to zero, honey, we’re starting up a brand new day.”

“Wars might come and go, but the seven o’clock news lives forever.”

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

“We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock.”

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”

“You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.”

“You’ve got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.”

There is a beauty and wonder to how time defines all of us in our lives.