Night Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Prove

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

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

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

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

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".

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

Buddy Hackett

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

Lord John Whorfin

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

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

Epictetus

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

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

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

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

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Chinese Prove

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens

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

Jerry Coleman

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

Margery Cuyle

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.

French Prove

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

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me.

Blade