Night Quotes
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.Ernest Rutheford
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
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.Marilyn Vos Savant
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.Epictetus
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.Logan Pearsall Smith
The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.John Dryden
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.Dr. Jonas Salk
There is a budding morrow in midnight.John Keats
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
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
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.Steve Martin
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
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
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
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
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
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement
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
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
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
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
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
There never was night that had no morn.Dinah Mulock Craik
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.Herb Caen
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.French Prove
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
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.Jerry Coleman
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
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
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
