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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)

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.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

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

—Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

—Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx

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

—Plath, Sylvia

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

—Hope, Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope

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

—Thurber,James Grover

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

—Bible (Old Testament)

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.

—Paley,William

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

—Wyman,Jane originally  SarahJane Fulks

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

—Wordsworth,William

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?

—Collins, Charles

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.

—Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de

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

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

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

—Bible (NewTestament)

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

—Durrell, Lawrence George

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.

—Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)

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

—Harris,Joel Chandler

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.

—Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of