Top 25 Quotes About Pocket Watches

#1. Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Eugene Kennedy

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#2. My personal opinion ... is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

Hans Wilsdorf

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#3. Railroads brought about lasting social effects, as well. The companies' ruthless attention to keeping time impelled passengers to carry pocket watches,* and led to the eventual establishment of time zones.

Simon Winchester

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#4. That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

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#5. At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

Joan Rivers

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#6. God, those eyes. Take cover, they said, because the storm was here now.

Caisey Quinn

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#7. Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Piers Paul Read

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#8. You never hear about good seafood places.

Curtis Granderson

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#9. Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

Bill Vaughan

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#10. Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

Lord Chesterfield

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#11. All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.

Edward St. Aubyn

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#12. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield

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#13. I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

Arno Hintjens

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#14. I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men ... I don't drink coffee.

Ellen DeGeneres

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#15. Every step with God is a step of faith. Every lesson learned is a lesson of faith. Every victory won is a victory by faith. That's the prominence of faith in the New Testament.

James MacDonald

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#16. When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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#17. God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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#18. That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

Alan Tudyk

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#19. Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

Lord Chesterfield

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#20. When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.

Peter Marshall

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#21. Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Lauren Ambrose

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#22. I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one

Jeffery Deaver

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#23. I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

Tom Rush

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#24. He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

Michael Cunningham

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#25. He watches you, Sinda. Like you're his best treasure, only he can't think of a way to slip you into is pocket. Hasn't he-of-the-throwing-daggers been brave enough to mention it?

Eilis O'Neal

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