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Daylight Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as…
- [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of…
More Daylight Quotes
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up… — Joseph Addison
- I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. — Victor Borge
- I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour. — Jeff Bridges
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. — H. L. Mencken
- Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all… — Thor Heyerdahl
- Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows… — George Henry Lewes
- I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei
- Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler
- It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on… — George W. Bush