Sabbath Day Quotes - Page 2

• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Beautiful, Time, Sorry

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”

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• The state was made for man, not man for state.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, States, Made

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• E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

  Alexander Pope

  Sunday, Shining, Sabbath

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.2

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• How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

  James Grahame

  Song, Morning, Voice

  Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame”, p.216

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• I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take my book, I take my stick On the Sabbath day, In woody nooks and valleys I hide myself away. To ponder there in quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved that church and Sabbath Were never made for man.

  Robert Graves

  Book, Men, People

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

  Mark Twain

  Way, Taught, Dishonor

  George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Arlin Turner (1960). “Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship”

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