Acheson Dean 1893-1971
The future comes one day at a time.
Borrow George 1803-1881
Lavengro
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
Camus Albert 1913-1960
The Fall
I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the
last judgement. It happens every day.
Donne John 1572-1631
"Break of Day"
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
Dunne Finley Peter 1867-1936
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.
Eastwood Clint
in Sudden Impact
,,Go ahead. Make my day."
Ellerton John 1826-1893
The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended,
The darkness falls at Thy behest.
Fuller Thomas 1608-1661
What a day may bring, a day may take away.
Horace 65-8 BC
Epistles
Believe each day that has dawned is your last.
Some hour to which you have not been looking
forward will prove lovely.
Horace 65-8 BC
Odes
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
Law William
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
Lowell Robert 1917-1977
‚,The Day"
It's amazing
the day is still here
like lightning on an open field,
terra firma and transient
swimming on variation,
fresh as when man first broke
like the crocus all over the earth.
McLean Don
„American Pie" (on death of Buddy Holly)
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride.
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
Mitchell Margaret 1900-1949
Gone with the Wind
After all, tomorrow is another day.
Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890
‘Lead, kindly Light'
I loved the garish day, and spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
Norris Kathleen
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Pliny (The Elder) AD 23-79
Natural History
Nulla dies sine linea.
Not a day without a line.
Pushkin Alexander 1799-1837
"It's Time"
It's time, my dear, it's time! The heart demands its quittance -
As day flies after day and each bears off its pittance
Withdrawn from living's store and meanwhile you and I
Draw up our plans to live ... And then, why then, we'll die.
Reade Charles 1814-1884
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Rotstein Abraham
Every dogma has its day.
Seneca c.4 BC-AD 65
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Antony and Cleopatra
The bright day is done,
And we are for the dark.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Richard II
The worst is death, and death will have his day.
Spender Sir Stephen 1909-1995
‚,What I expected, was"
What I had not foreseen
Was the gradual day
Weakening the will
Leaking the brightness away.
Taylor Ann and Taylor Jane 1782-1866 and 1783-1824
Rhymes for the Nursery ‘The Way to be Happy'
How pleasant it is, at the end of the day,
No follies to have to repent;
But reflect on the past, and be able to say,
That my time has been properly spent.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„Ulysses"
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
„To Sleep"
Blessed barrier between day and day.
Amherst Earl 1773-1857
In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest, women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 90 v.12
So teach us to number our days: that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
„On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year"
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
Dowson Ernest 1867-1900
„Vitae Summa Brevis"
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
Eliot T.S. 1888-1965
„Preludes"
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Essays
The years teach much which the days never know.
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
„Days"
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
Essays
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough
depends not on the number of your years but on your will.
Moore Thomas 1779-1852
,,The young May moon"
Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear;
`Tis never too late for delight, my dear;
And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!
Proberbs and Sayings
English
One of these days is none of these days.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
May you live all the days of your life.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
Idylls of the King „The Passing of Arthur"
And the days darken round me, and the years,
Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
„To a Butterfly, I've Watched you now"
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.