Night Quotes
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.George Carlin
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
Daylight follows a dark night.Maasai 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
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
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
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.Woody Allen
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.James Joyce
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
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
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.Mother Theresa
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.Virgil
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
In the night all cats are gray.Miguel de Cervantes
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
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
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
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
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.George Weiss
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
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
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
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
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
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
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.Cary Grant
We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow - Shapes that come and go Round with the Sun - Illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.Omar Khayym
The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.Chinese Prove
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
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
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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
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
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)
