The clock goes as it pleases the clerk. [ Proverb ]

Lovers' time runs faster than the clock. [ Proverb ]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. [ Alan Turing ]

The clock of his age had struck fifty-eight. [ Cellini ]

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. [ Cowper ]

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old Time, the clock setter, that bald sexton, Time. [ William Shakespeare ]

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. [ German Proverb ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

Who knows but that my private watch may go truer than the town-clock? [ Proverb ]

It is quite as much of a trade to make a book as to make a clock. It requires more than mere genius to be an author. [ Bruyere ]

The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]

Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now - now in this Present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in. [ William Mountford ]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]