Quotes
Quotes about Day
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!
And make each day a critic on the last.
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
Years following years steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er,
But lived in Settle's numbers one day more.
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage,
But wise through time, and narrative with age,
In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,--
A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
The day shall come, that great avenging day
Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay,
When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall,
And one prodigious ruin swallow all.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,--
Such men as live in these degenerate days.
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold:
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of a day.
A mass enormous! which in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
A green old age, unconscious of decays,
That proves the hero born in better days.
Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Dogs, ye have had your day!
So ends the bloody business of the day.
Note 1.See Milton, Quotation 4.
There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
Du Bartas: Days and Weeks, third day.
But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.
For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.
A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views, let both united be:
I live in pleasure when I live to thee.
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
