A Quote by Joseph Addison

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison
English - Writer
May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Paulo Coelho

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

John Hodgman

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Kanye West

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Stephen Hunt

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

William J. Clinton

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Paulo Coelho

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.

Euny Hong

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

Leonard Sweet

Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an end, this does not mean apocalyptic visions of the end of the world were on target. And even if a beginning for the universe is a successful prediction of one version of theism, this is still not that impressive. After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The Big Bang becomes strong support for God only with an argument showing that such a beginning requires a Creator.

Taner Edis

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

Dan Wells

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

William J. Clinton

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Orson Scott Card

No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.