Evening Quotes - Page 2

• What a nice night for an evening.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Morning, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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

  John of the Cross

  Love, Life, Judged

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• The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

  Samuel Richardson

  Different, Companion, Qualifications

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Mulson Chapone, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1785). “The Rambler”, p.222

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• Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Natural, Given, Gross

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• My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beach, Listening, Done

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  William Blake

  Good Morning, Happiness, Sleep

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Cute, Sarcastic

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• To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.

  Robert Browning

  Robert Browning, Augustine Birrell (1915). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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• I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

  Douglas Adams

  Fabulous, Apocalypse, I Can

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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  Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Smile, Romantic

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Wine, Ignorance

  "Fragments (Fragment 109)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• ...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Sky, Joy

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• To us and a wonderful evening of love making.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Wonderful, Love Making

  "Submarine". www.imdb.com. September 12, 2010.

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• As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Adventure, Heartfelt

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• In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Music, Art, Way

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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  In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Men, Morning Inspirational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.384, Harvard University Press

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• It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

  Tove Jansson

  Book, Good Evening

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• There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

  John Lithgow

  Night, Spending, Audience

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• Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

  Aime Cesaire

  Sacrifice, Reason, Breeze

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Night, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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