Afternoon Quotes

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.

Jerry Coleman

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Cousin Woodman

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It took me seventeen years to get 3, 000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003