Night Quotes

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

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

Willie Sutton

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

Steven Wright

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

Virgil

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - Broadcast on February 6, 1997

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

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

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

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

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

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

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.

James Joyce

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

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

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams, The Guardian

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

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

William Shakespeare

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Henri Poincare

There never was night that had no morn.

Dinah Mulock Craik

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

James Joyce

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

D. H. Lawrence

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.

Ronald Reagan

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.

Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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

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 dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Weather forecast for tonight dark.

George Carlin

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

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

Buddy Hackett

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

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

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