Night Quotes
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
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
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
The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
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
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
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, Paul Clifford
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
Do not go gentle into that good night.Dylan Thomas
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
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
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.George Weiss
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.James Barrie
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
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.Marilyn Vos Savant
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
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
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 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
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
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
Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.Lewis Ward
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
