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Quotes about Day


A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...

Jeremy Taylor

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

Alan Coren

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

Christina Rossetti

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

John Dryden

Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.

John Clare

Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand, Can health, wealth, and long life command.

Unattributed Author

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.

James Russell Lowell

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Joseph Bible

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

Mark Twain

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.

Mikao Usui

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.

Charles Kuralt

I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Benjamin Bacon

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Henry David Thoreau

The merry lark he soars on high, No worldly thought o'ertakes him. He sings aloud to the clear blue sky, And the daylight that awakes him.

Hartley Coleridge

It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.]

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)

The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a pas rit.]

Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.

Sydney Smith

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Nicholas Chamfort

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Paul Dickson

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