WIST Quotations

Jerome, Jerome K. -- “Clocks,” Diary of a Pilgrimage, and Six Other Essays (1891)

Dave — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:59:34 +0000

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right — except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
“Clocks,” Diary of a Pilgrimage, and Six Other Essays (1891)
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Holland, Barbara -- Bingo Night at the Fire Hall (1997)

Dave — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:44:26 +0000

I have ferreted out the alarm clock, plugged it in, and set it, musing on the word “alarm” and why the world must be wakened daily to cries of panic and danger.

Barbara Holland (1933-2010) American author
Bingo Night at the Fire Hall (1997)
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Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von -- Aphorisms, #67 (1880)

Dave — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:48:28 +0000

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

[Die still stehende Uhr, die täglich zwei Mal die richtige Zeit angezeigt hat, blickt nach Jahren auf eine lange Reihe von Erfolgen zurück.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms, #67 (1880)
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FitzGerald, Edward -- “Chronomoros,” l. 33ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)

Dave — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:56:21 +0000

Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.

Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) English writer, poet, translator
“Chronomoros,” l. 33ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)
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