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

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  'On a Sundial'.

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)
Psalms 90:4.

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms141:3.

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

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 26:41.

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
  Letter to his son, 22 Feb.

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
  'Any Old Iron' (with E  A Sheppard and Fred Terry). The second line is commonly rendered'Any any any old iron?'.

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

-Durrell, Lawrence George
  Tunc, ch.1.

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
  Entretiens sur la pluralite¤   des mondes.

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

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'Lost Love'.

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

-Harris,Joel Chandler
  Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings,'Plantation Proverbs'.

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
Quoted in the Reader's Digest, Oct1958.

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
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des ouvrages de l'esprit', no.3.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

-Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx
  Line delivered in  A Day at the Races (screenplay by George Seaton, Robert Pirosh and George Oppenheimer).

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
  NaturalTheology, ch.1.

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
  'Morning Song', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel,1965).

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)
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

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
  The Beast In Me and OtherAnimals,'Look Homeward, Jeannie'.

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
  'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 9 (published1800).

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

-Wyman,Jane originally  SarahJane Fulks
Of Ronald Reagan. Quoted inJack Finney FromTime toTime (1995).