“Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?"

Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.”

“But maybe you're just as glad he’s not a shrink, eh? Awful to have your spouse analyzing your unconscious desires across the dinner table, eh?”

“cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend”

“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”

“Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.”

“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”

“Should a record setting year or string of them be cause for alarm? Personally I don't think so.”

“Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.”

“When people are asleep, we must all become alarm clocks.”

“You broke my heart, Danny boy
Not your fault, Danny boy
I was had at the doorstep
Played, like a two to a four-set
Had, like poor Job in the bible by God.”