Evening Quotes

• Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, New Day, Promise

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• Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.

  Will Alsop

  Beautiful, Morning, Ugly

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• ...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

  William Cowper

  Night, Peaceful, Welcome

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Feet, Done, Enjoy

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jan 21, 2013

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• In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

  Gertrude Stein

  Morning, Feelings

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

  Jane Austen

  Wonder

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.221, Book Boutiques

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• The evening had turned sweet and blue.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sweet, Blue

  Alice Hoffman (1998). “Second Nature”, p.24, Penguin

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• You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

  Sophocles

  Kind, Knows

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• The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

  Joseph Joubert

  Age, Lamps

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Real, Looks

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Every evening brings us nearer God.

  Martin Luther

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• The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

  Al Stewart

  Expression, Voice, Dawn

  Song: Roads to Moscow

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• Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

  T. S. Eliot

  Sky, Sawdust, Muttering

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 1 (1917)

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

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• We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

  Albert Pike

  Art, Stars, Spring

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Labor Day, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

  Sappho

  Beautiful, Stars, All Stars

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Twilight, Passion, Heart

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.31

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• What a nice night for an evening.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

  Ashley Judd

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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• In the evening
  Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

  John Ashbery

  Schedules, Ifs

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Turbulence

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.287

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• At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Life, Judged

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• Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

  Aime Cesaire

  Sacrifice, Reason, Breeze

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