Night Quotes
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
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
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.Herb Caen
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.Epictetus
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.Dr. Jonas Salk
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.Douglas Adams, The Guardian
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
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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E e cummings
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.James Joyce
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement
I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they.John Keats
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.Edgar Allan Poe
Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.French Prove
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.Rodney Dangerfield
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.Logan Pearsall Smith
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.Gerald R. Ford
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Fitzgerald
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
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
