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The 13 Clocks QUOTES

The 13 Clocks QUOTES

1 " Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

2 " The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

3 " A soft finger touched his shoulder and he turned to see a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark describable beard. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

4 " Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

5 " I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

6 " I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life."
"The firefly's ?" said the minstrel.
"The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

7 " The brambles and the thorns grew thick and thicker in a ticking thicket of bickering crickets. Farther along and stronger, bonged the gongs of a throng of frogs, green and vivid on their lily pads. From the sky came the crying of flies, and the pilgrims leaped over a bleating sheep creeping knee-deep in a sleepy stream, in which swift and slippery snakes slid and slithered silkily, whispering sinful secrets. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

8 " You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina! "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

9 " What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'"
"Nothing," said the Prince.
"Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

10 " Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

11 " I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

12 " Half the places I have been to, never were. I make things up. Half the things I say are there cannot be found. When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods. I dug myself."

"But why?"

"I thought the tale of treasure might be true."

"You said you made it up."

"I know I did, but then I didn't know I had. I forget things, too. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

13 " There was an old coddle so molly,
He talked in a glot that was poly,
His gaws were so gew
That his laps became dew,
And he ate only pops that were lolly. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

14 " They've got him!" squealed the Duke. "Eleven men to one!"

"You may have heard of Galahad," said Hark, "whose strength was as the strength of ten."

"That leaves one man to get him," cried the Duke. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

15 " I can do a score of things that can’t be done.

I can find a thing I can’t see, and I see a thing I can’t find.

The first is time, and the second is a spot before my eyes.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch, and I touch a thing I cannot feel.

The first is sad and sorry, and the second is your heart.

What would you do without me? Say “nothing”. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

16 " The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

17 " Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made if difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales. He was six feet four, and forty-six, and even colder than he thought he was. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

18 " A dehoy who was terribly hobble,
Cast only stones that were cobble
And bats that were ding,
From a shot that was sling,
But never hit inks that were bobble. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

19 " The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks

20 " You'll never live to wed his niece. You'll only die to feed his geese. "

― James Thurber , The 13 Clocks