Night Quotes
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.Jim Bishop
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.James Barrie
We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow - Shapes that come and go Round with the Sun - Illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.Omar Khayym
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.Henri Poincare
He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.E. e. cummings
There never was night that had no morn.Dinah Mulock Craik
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.D. H. Lawrence
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.Marilyn Vos Savant
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.Gerald R. Ford
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.Herodotus, Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus
I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.Woody Allen
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.Cary Grant
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.William Shakespeare
