Night Quotes

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - Broadcast on February 6, 1997

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi".

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Prove

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

John Keats

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

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

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, Collected poems (1952)

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora".

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

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

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin

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

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

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