Night Quotes
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.Albert Camus
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.Mother Theresa
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.Cary Grant
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
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.
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 married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.Bette Midle
The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.Virgil
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.D. H. Lawrence
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 have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.Oscar Levant
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
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
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
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me.Blade
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
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
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
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
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
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
There never was night that had no morn.Dinah Mulock Craik
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.Logan Pearsall Smith
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
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 thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
