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Afternoon Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk…
- In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a…
- How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the…
More Afternoon Quotes
- We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a… — Terry Brooks
- I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
- The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess
- I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with… — David Byrne
- We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. — Jimmy Carter
- France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. — Barbara Cartland
- On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play… — Maya Angelou
- It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. — Hank Aaron
- No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton