Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
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Evening
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"
Bill Hicks
Comedian, Writer
"I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"Every evening brings us nearer God."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"This is an evening of wonders, indeed!"
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"The evening of life brings with it its lamps."
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"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky"
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"I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains."
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"The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars"
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"Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening."
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"To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day."
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"A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella."
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"The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening."
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"Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings."
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"I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening."
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"Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening."
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"Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon."
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"[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap."
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"An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening."
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"Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening."
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"What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening."
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"Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was."
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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
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