Night Quotes
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
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
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
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
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
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
Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.Lewis Ward
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.Andy Warhol
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.Woody Allen
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
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
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
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
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
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.Gerald R. Ford
In the night all cats are gray.Miguel de Cervantes
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.Sidney Madwed
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten - Pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.Tommy Coope
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
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
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
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
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".
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
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
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
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
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
