Late Afternoon

Famous quotes containing the words late and/or afternoon:

“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)