Afternoon Quotes

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. (Lin Yutang)
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. View quote
Henry James
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. View quote
Steve Jobs
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. View quote
Barbara Cartland
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. View quote
William F. Buckley
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. View quote
Susan Ertz
Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. View quote
Hank Aaron
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? View quote
Dr. Seuss
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." (Lyndon B. Johnson)
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. View quote
Marie Corelli
It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedarlimbs. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. View quote
Henry James
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. View quote
Annie Dillard
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored that's the time for sex. View quote
H. G. Wells
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! (Maurice Gibb)
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. View quote
Barbara Jordan
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. View quote
Ivor Novello
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. View quote
Muddy Waters