Sun Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

25 Sun Quotes
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“When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.”
Alfred, the Great Quotes
Source: Consolation, (translation of Boethius)
“The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
“See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. A Mountain)
“The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Heaven)
“See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 409)
“Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.”
William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Source: The Cloud on the Way (l. 18)
“Make hay while the sun shines.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
“Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (st. 1, l. 268)
“The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea (l. 165), from Ovid "Metamorphoses", bk. xiii
“Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Threnodia Augustalis
“High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.”
William Falconer Quotes
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, III, l. 3)
“Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.”
Frederic William Farrar Quotes
Source: Darkness and Dawn (chap. XLVI)
“Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.”
David Garrick Quotes
Source: On the Death of Henry Pelham
“In climes beyond the solar road.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Progress of Poesy
“Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing, A patriarch that strolls Through the tents of his children, The sun as he journeys His round on the lower Ascents of the blue, Washes the roofs And the hillsides with clarity.”
William Ernest Henley Quotes
Source: Rhymes and Rhythms
“Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.”
Thomas Hood Quotes
Source: Hymn to the Sun (st. 4)
“She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.”
Thomas Hood Quotes
Source: Ruth
“The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.”
John Jortin Quotes
Source: Sermon
“When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.”
Nathaniel Lee Quotes
Source: Oedipus, said to be written by Lee and Dryden
“Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
Source: Euphues
“The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 43)
“Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.”
James Macpherson Quotes
Source: Ossian--Carthon--Ossian's Address to the Sun
“Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.”
James Macpherson Quotes
Source: Ossian--Cathon--Ossian's Address to the Sun
“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 8)