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Quotes About Day

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.
~ Alexander MacLaren
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
~ A. E. Housman
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
~ Anthony Wayne
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
~ Brigham Young
Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.
~ Claire Bloom
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!
~ Marianne Moore
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
~ Martial
Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
~ N.D. Wilson
Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'.
~ Oliver Sacks
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus
~ Hesiod
A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
~ John Lennon
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
~ John Milton
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.
~ Wallace Stevens
Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day.
~ Venerable Bede
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
~ Joseph Addison
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown.
~ Jessica Powers
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.
~ Robert Frost
It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.
~ Noel Fielding