Day

"Have we the right to use the few days that we have at our disposal for something that produces a momentary effect but creates nothing permanent?"

"[T]he great lady of heaven delivered those words to An. Having heard those words, An slapped his thighs in [annoyance], his voice filled with sighs of grief: "What has my child done? She has become greater than me! What has Inana done? She has become greater than me! From now on, the normal length of daylight becomes shorter, and daylight converts to night-time. From today, when the day's watch is three units long, daylight is equal to night-time." And now, when day began, it was indeed so."

"The long days are no happier than the short ones."

"DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper -- the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. These two kinds of social activity overlap."

"Virtus sui gloria. Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done."

"Are the best days just the ones that we survive?"

"Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?"

"All comes out even at the end of the day."

"An lifted his head in pride and brought forth a good day."

"After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge."

"Quantumvis cursum longum fessumque moratur Sol, sacro tandem carmine Vesper adest."

"Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die."

"I think the better day the better deed."

"Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro.""

"Each day is a gift and not a given right."

"If today was your last day And tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday?"

"Hide me from day's garish eye."

"I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

"There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why."

"Jusqu'au cercuil (mon fils) vueilles apprendre, Et tien perdu le jour qui s'est passe, Si tu n'y as quelque chose ammasse, Pour plus scavant et plus sage te rendre."

"O, such a day, So fought, so follow'd and so fairly won."

"What hath this day deserv'd? what hath it done, That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the calendar?"

"The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton."

"My god, the day shines bright over the Land, but for me the day is black."

"A life that leads melodious days."

"Expectada dies aderat."

"On all important time, thro' ev'ry age, Tho' much, and warm, the wise have urged; the man Is yet unborn, who duly weighs an hour, "I've lost a day"—the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown; Of Rome? say rather, lord of human race."

"The spirit walks of every day deceased."

"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, The very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Varieties And Realities of your Existence; The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn."

"Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings."

"From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,—one by one,— Twisted together, or single or double, The varying thread of our life is spun. Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling; Light shall come though the gloom be falling; Faith will list for the Master calling Our hearts to his rest,—when the day is done."

"Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak."

"Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim."

"So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return."

"Dies iræ, dies illa! Solvet sæclum in favilla, Teste David cum Sybilla."

"Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away."

"Days, that need borrow No part of their good morrow From a fore-spent night of sorrow."

"Daughters of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleachéd garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn."

"The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."

"The better day, the worse deed."

"Truditur dies die, Novæque pergunt interire lunæ."

"Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota."

"Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: Grata superveniet, quæ non sperabitur, hora."

"Creta an carbone notandi?"

"O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind."

"Well, this is the end of a perfect day, Near the end of a journey, too; But it leaves a thought that is big and strong, With a wish that is kind and true. For mem'ry has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made."

"Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amène sa nuit."

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle."

"Clearer than the noonday."

"Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom."

"Out of the shadows of night, The world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere."

"O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain."

"How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!"

"O diem lætum, notandumque mihi candidissimo calculo."

"Longissimus dies cito conditur."

"Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

"Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge."

"Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; sweet Phosphor, bring the day!"

"We met, hand to hand, We clasped hands close and fast, As close as oak and ivy stand; But it is past: Come day, come night, day comes at last."

"Die schönen Tage in Aranjuez Sind nun zu Ende."

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

"Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity."

"Discipulus est priori posterior dies."

"But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me."

""A day for Gods to stoop," * * * ay, And men to soar."

"Diem perdidi."

"Mes jours s'en sont allez errant."

"One of those heavenly days that cannot die."

"Päivällä on silmät, yöllä korvat. (Florinus) (VKS)"