Quotes About Eve

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

On the basis of Adam's statement, combined with these data on usage, we would have to conclude that God took one of Adam's sides—likely meaning he cut Adam in half and from one side built the woman.

as I [Eve] was the only cook in all Christendom at the time, the idea of not coming home to dinner never occurred to Adam... It is true that at times he criticised my cooking, but in view of certain ancestral limitations from which he suffered, I never had to sit quietly and listen to an exasperating disquisition on the Pies That Mother Used To Make...

But if Adam and Eve (when they were alone in the world) instead of their ordinary night's sleep, had passed the whole twenty-four hours in one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty-four hours had been irrecoverably lost to them, and been for ever left out of their account of time.

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.

When I graduated from high school, I became a DJ in a club, a local hang-out called Eve After Dark.

In the biblical account of the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve only one negative; all other guidance was positive.

Feels good, this time of year," he said. "The sun's dead and don't know it yet, but we do. If you're killed, you'll get to miss next winter, and if you're hurt bad, you'll get to stay inside. That's what I always tell them. Of course, most of the fights are around midsummer's eve, so it's more appropriate then, so to speak. I don't know if it comforts them or not, but it does no harm.

So if Adam and Eve are the parents of the whole human race, where did Cain's wife come from? After

There are no antiquities in my case — not even an independent curl nor a bit of loose ivory. Her insipid years have been devoted to the ironmonger, and she is now as tempting a daughter of Eve as ever made a man's heart beat uneasy beneath his sword belt. She ought to have been a sort of relative of yours, Steinmark.

That battle of the mistletoe had been fought on the morning before Christmas Day, and the Holmeses came on Christmas Eve.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, and without coming any nearer, the very being who is necessary to him as food. It requires the strength of soul that Eve did not have; and yet she had no need of the fruit. If she had been hungry at the moment she looked at the fruit, and if in spite of that she had remained looking at it indefinitely without taking one step toward it, she would have performed a miracle analogous to that of perfect friendship.

bears repeating: in Eve's case antinomianism (her opposition to and rejection of God's law) was itself an expression of her legalism!

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'dThe mother of mankind.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.

Adam the goodliest man of men since bornHis sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

Femeia-i Paradisul ca noapte.

As Eve was the only cook in all Christendom at the time, the idea of not coming home to dinner never occurred to Adam.

The shadows spread apace; while meekened Eve, Her cheek yet warm with blushes, slow retires Through the Hesperian gardens of the west, And shuts the gates of day.

Literary ladies may point to the primal mother as the first authoress; for a Gospel of Eve existed in the times of St. Epiphanius, who mentions it as being in repute among the Gnostics.

That Eve was Adam's second wife was a common Rabbinic speculation; certain of the commentators on Genesis having adopted this view to account for the double account of the creation of woman in the sacred text--first in Genesis i. 27, and secondly in Genesis ii. 18; and they say that Adam's first wife was named Lilith, but she was expelled from Eden, and after her expulsion Eve was created.

It must not be supposed that women, as they are now, are at all comparable to Eve in her pristine beauty.