Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.
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.
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
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.
I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.
Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.
And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.
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.
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up at five o'clock, six o'clock; it's usually seven-thirty, eight o'clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.