Day Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

32 Day Quotes
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“Daughter 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; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: Days
“The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: Works and Days
“For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]”
Epitaph Quotes
Source: on the tombstone of Jean d'Orbesan at Padua
“Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter, To make thyself learneder, wiser, better. [Fr., Jusqu'au cercuil (mon fils) vueilles apprendre, Et tien perdu le jour qui s'est passe, Si tu n'y as quelque chose ammasse, Pour plus scavant et plus sage te rendre.]”
Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac Quotes
Source: Collections of Quatrains (no. 31), translated by Joshua Sylvester
“After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge.”
Stephen Hawes Quotes
Source: Pastime of Pleasure
“The better day, the worse deed.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes
Source: Commentaries (Genesis, III)
“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: The Temple--Virtue
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