A good rider may often be thrown from his horse, And climb on once again to face forward his course, Which is how I went forward myself on my way, And come,Christ, and give me my true judgment day.

-Anonymous
c TraditionalIrish poem. Translatedby Owen Dudley Edwards.

Far away from where I am now there is a little gap in the hills, and beyond it the sea; and 'tis there I do be looking the whole day long, for it's the nearest thing to yourself that I can see.

-Anonymous
c.1900  Letter from an unidentified Irish postboy to his beloved, quoted in Maurice Healy  The Old Munster Circuit.

Went the day well?

-Anonymous
Title of an anthology of tributes to men and women killed in the war, used for the title of Cavalcanti's1942 film about German soldiers invading an English village.

I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight, Keep your eye on the prize, Hold on, hold on!

-Anonymous
Civil rights song, quoted in  Juan Williams Eye on the Prize (1987).

   Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Antigone.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

-Anonymous
Proverb.

Nous voulons tous louer a'   l'anne¤  e et nous ne pouvons jamais louer que pour une semaine ou pour unjour. C'est l'image de la vie. Wewould all liketo leaseforayearand we canonly lease for a week or from day to day. That is the image of life.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Le Rendez-vous de Senlis, act1.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

   Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Longing' (later published as 'Faded Leaves' in Poems: Second Series,1855).

All the live murmur of a summer's day.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.20.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  Spain.

   O all the instruments agree The day of his death was a dark cold day.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of  W.B.Yeats', pt.1.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, neverapathetic, neverattitudinizingöhere isperfection of character.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
c.  AD 170^180  Meditations, bk.7, no.69 (translated by M Staniforth).

The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin' worm doth chide.

-Ballads
'The Wife of Usher's Well'.

La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

And God called the light Dayand the darkness he called Night. And the evening and morning were the first day.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:5.

Iwill not againcursetheground anymore for man'ssake; for the imagination of man is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 8:21^2.

And the L went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus13:21.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said,There is a man child conceived.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 3:3.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job19:25^6.