Quotes
Quotes about Day
Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth
In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth;
But after licking, it in shape she drawes,
And by degrees she fashions out the pawes,
The head, and neck, and finally doth bring
To a perfect beast that first deformed thing.
In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.
Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
Rome was not built in a day.
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.
As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.
Yet could I these two days have spent,
While still the autumn sweetly shone,
Ah, me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne.
They tell me every day is there
Not more nor less than Sunday gay;
In shining robes and garments fair
The people walk upon their way.
One gazes there on castle walls
As grand as those of Babylon,
A bishop and two generals!
What joy to be in Carcassonne!
Ah! might I but see Carcassonne!
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.
There were giants in the earth in those days.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
Clearer than the noonday.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
