Night Quotes

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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".

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

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

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

Horace, Odes

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

Blade

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

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

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

Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora".

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Bette Midle

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Woody Allen

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

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

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

Daylight follows a dark night.

Maasai Prove

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

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

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

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

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

Buddy Hackett

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Mae West

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

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

George Weiss

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond

There never was night that had no morn.

Dinah Mulock Craik

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

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

Japanese Prove

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

Willie Sutton

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

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

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

John Keats

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield