Term Clock Discipline

Famous quotes containing the words term, clock and/or discipline:

    “Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “My child, do not despise the LORD’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the LORD reproves the one he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 3:11-12.