Night Quotes
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
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
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
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
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
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.Alexis Carrel
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
There is a budding morrow in midnight.John Keats
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 out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
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
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".
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
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
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
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
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
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)
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
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
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
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
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president.Gerald R. Ford
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
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
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.Jim Bishop
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.Oscar Levant
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
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
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
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
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.Jerry Coleman
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.Albert Camus
