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Your Quotes for 19 August 2005 - Clocks

Seth Thomas was born at Wolcott, Connecticut on this day in 1785 and apprenticed as a carpenter. In 1807 he took his woodworking skills to Eli Terry's clockworks, and bought Terry out in 1810. Three years later he bought another clock factory at Plymouth Hollow, which was named Thomaston in his honor after he died. Because he ran his business in a very conservative way, he was able to steadily expand, buying out other manufacturers when they overstepped, and his name was soon appearing on more clocks than any other. Although the company has been through a couple of reorganizations in the last half century, his name continues to appear on clocks produced almost two centuries after he made his first.

You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
     - Bonnie Prudden

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
     - Dave Allen

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike.
     - German proverb

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
     - Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 - 1980

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge.
     - W. Willard Wirtz, US Secretary of Labor

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it’s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
     - Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)

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