DAY

Related Subjects: Dawn, Evening, Hours, Light, Morning, Night, Noon, Sun, Time

1. Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
   That from the East glad message brings.—T. B. ALDRICH, Day and Night
   

2. When shall I see those halcyon days?—ARISTOPHANES, The Clouds
   

3. The long days are no happier than the short ones.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus
   

4. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.—Bible, Job 7:6
   

5. Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom.—Bible, Job 32:7
   

6. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.—Bible, Psalms 19:2
   

7. Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,
   And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.—RUPERT BROOKE, Day That I Have Loved
   

8. So here hath been dawning
   Another blue day:
   Think, wilt thou let it
   Slip useless away?—CARLYLE, Today
   

9. All comes out even at the end of the day.—Quoted by WINSTON CHURCHILL
   

10. Daughters of Time, the hypocrite Days,
    Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
    And marching single in an endless file,
    Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.—EMERSON, Days
    

11. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
    The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
    The ploughman homeward plods his weary way
    And leaves the world to darkness and to me.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
    

12. Hide me from day's garish eye.—MILTON, Il Penseroso
    

13. How troublesome is day!
    It calls us from our sleep away;
    It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake,
    And sends us forth to keep or break
    Our promises to pay.—T. L. PEACOCK, How Troublesome is Day
    

14. A bad day never bath a good night.—Proverb
    

15. O, such a day,
    So fought, so follow'd and so fairly won.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

16. The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,
    Attended with the pleasures of the world,
    Is all too wanton.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

17. What bath this day deserved? what bath it done
    That it in golden letters should be set
    Among the high tides in the calendar?—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

18. In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

19. We burn daylight.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

20. He makes a July's day short as December.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
    

21. There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.—W. SHENSTONE
    

22. A day can prostrate and upraise again
    All that is human.—SOPHOCLES, Ajax
    

23. I hate the day, because it lendeth light
    To see all things, and not my love to see.—EDMUND SPENSER, Daphnaida
    

24. But the tender grace of a day that is dead
    Will never come back to me.—TENNYSON, Break, Break, Break
    

25. A life that leads melodious days.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam
    

26. One of those heavenly days that cannot die.—WORDSWORTH, Nutting