Quotes
Quotes about Day
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes - the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They-Haves.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
