Night Quotes

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

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

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Matt Groening, "Life in Hell".

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

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

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

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

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.

Virgil

However long the night, the dawn will break.

African Prove

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

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

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".

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten - Pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Tommy Coope

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Mother Theresa

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

Jerry Coleman

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

James Barrie

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.

Buddy Hackett

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Willie Sutton

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Herodotus, Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Epictetus

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

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

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

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

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

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Prove

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.

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