Quotes of Evening - somelinesforyou

“ How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The shortest night of the year is Christmas Eve-from sundwon to son up. ”

- Burton Hills

“ The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ”

- Christina G. Rossetti

“ Ah, strong am I with the Force, but not that strong. Twilight is upon me, and soon, night must fall. That is the way of things. The way of the Force. ”

- Yoda

“ Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. - Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells! ”

- Thomas Moore

“ I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ”

- Kim Elizabeth

“ What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Crowfoot. ”

- Crowfoot

“ As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. ”

- William Orville Douglas

“ There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ”

- Woody Allen

“ I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes. ”

- Steven Wright

“ For me, working onstage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling…There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. ”

- John Lithgow

“ Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ I've had a perfectly wonderful evening — but this wasn't it. ”

- Groucho

“ For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. ”

- Anthony Trollope

“ Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. ”

- Jean Paul Richter
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