Evening Quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. (William Blake)
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. View quote
Lord Byron
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. View quote
Wallace Stevens
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? View quote
Woody Allen
A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. View quote
Ville Valo
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. View quote
Anthony Trollope
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. (Woodrow Wilson)
The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable. View quote
K. Barry Sharpless
It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedarlimbs. View quote
Wallace Stevens
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. View quote
Henry James
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's a fine night to have an evening. View quote
Steven Wright
Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. View quote
Robert Browning
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. View quote
Ben Hecht
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. (Walter Winchell)
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. View quote
Tom Holt
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. View quote
George Steiner
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. View quote
William Wordsworth
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine