Night Quotes
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
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Fitzgerald
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
Daylight follows a dark night.Maasai Prove
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.Jerry Coleman
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
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
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
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
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
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.George Weiss
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
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
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.William Shakespeare
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.Virgil
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me.Blade
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
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
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.Dr. Jonas Salk
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
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.Ernest Rutheford
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
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
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.Marion Howard