Night Quotes
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
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
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
Do not go gentle into that good night.Dylan Thomas
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
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
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
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
However long the night, the dawn will break.African Prove
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
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
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.French Prove
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
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.E. e. cummings
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.Sidney Madwed
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
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
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten - Pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.Tommy Coope
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
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.Logan Pearsall Smith
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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
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
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace
Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.French Prove
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
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
