Night Quotes

Maasai prove - daylight follows a dark night....
Logan pearsall smith, afterthoughts (1931)
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.
Ronald Reagan
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
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
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
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
Mother Theresa
Malcolm de chazal - the family is a court of justice which never...
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.
Betty Naomi Friedan
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.
Mark Twain
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
Weather forecast for tonight dark.
George Carlin
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
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, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
Andy Warhol
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Prove
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
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin
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
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
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
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
George Weiss
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.
Logan Pearsall Smith
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Eudora Welty
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace, Odes
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
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.
Dicky Barrett
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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
Fitzgerald
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
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
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