Night Quotes
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 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
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
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
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.George Carlin
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
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 councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.Homer, The Iliad
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
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
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
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
Weather forecast for tonight dark.George Carlin
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.Oscar Levant
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.Virgil
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.Woody Allen
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
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
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.Mother Theresa
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.Alexis Carrel
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.Jefferson Davis
This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.John F. Kennedy, 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
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
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.Bette Midle
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
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
In the night all cats are gray.Miguel de Cervantes
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
