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
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
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
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
In the night all cats are gray.Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.Charles Baudelaire
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.Jerry Coleman
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.Margery Cuyle
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
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
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.Malcolm De Chazal
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
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
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
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.Oscar Levant
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
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
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
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
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
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Eric Draven Jesus Christ Stop me if you heard this one Jesus Christ walks into a hotel. He hands the innkeeper three nails, and he asks... Can you put me up for the night.Crow, The
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 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
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
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.Herb Caen
Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.Lewis Ward
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
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Fitzgerald
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, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".
Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.So I Married an Axe Murdere
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.Dr. Jonas Salk
The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.Chinese Prove