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  • I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better bya watch.

    - (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
      'On a Sundial'.

  • For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 90:4.

  •    Set a watch,O L, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms141:3.

  • Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 26:41.

  • Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and donot merely pull it out and strike it, merely toshow that you have one.

    - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
      Letter to his son, 22 Feb.

  • Any old iron, any old iron, Anyany old old iron? You look neat Talk about a treat, You look dapper from your napper to your feet. Dressed in style, brand new tile, And your father's old green tie on, But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch chain; Old iron, old iron?

    - Charles Collins
      'Any Old Iron' (with E  A Sheppard and Fred Terry). The second line is commonly rendered'Any any any old iron?'.

  • Poggio's, where people go to watch each other watch each other.

    - Lawrence George Durrell
      Tunc, ch.1.

  • L'univers†je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a'   une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.

    - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
      Entretiens sur la pluralite   des mondes.

  • His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or a leaf Every instant grow.

    - Robert von Ranke Graves
      'Lost Love'.

  • Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.

    -Joel Chandler Harris
      Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings,'Plantation Proverbs'.

  • If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

    - Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope Hope
    Quoted in the Reader's Digest, Oct1958.

  • C'est un me  tier que de faire un livre, comme de faire une pendule; il faut plus que de l'esprit pour e"  tre auteur. It is as much a trade to write a book as it is to make a watch; it takes more than wit to make an author.

    -Jean de La Bruye'  re
      Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des ouvrages de l'esprit', no.3.

  • Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

    - Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx Marx
      Line delivered in  A Day at the Races (screenplay by George Seaton, Robert Pirosh and George Oppenheimer).

  • Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place† The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

    -William Paley
      NaturalTheology, ch.1.

  • Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

    - Sylvia Plath
      'Morning Song', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel,1965).

  • To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

    -J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
      The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

  • She developed a persistent troubled frown which gave her the expression of someone who is trying to repair a watch with his gloves on.

    -James Grover Thurber
      The Beast In Me and OtherAnimals,'Look Homeward, Jeannie'.

  • Shut close the door; press down the latch; Sleep in thy intellectual crust; Nor lose ten tickings of thy watch Near this unprofitable dust.

    -William Wordsworth
      'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 9 (published1800).

  • Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

    -Jane originally  SarahJane Fulks Wyman
    Of Ronald Reagan. Quoted inJack Finney FromTime toTime (1995).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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