Night Quotes
However long the night, the dawn will break.African Prove
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
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
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.Dr. Jonas Salk
Daylight follows a dark night.Maasai Prove
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
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.Henri Poincare
What is life? It is a 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
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
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
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
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
The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.Chinese Prove
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
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)
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.Logan Pearsall Smith
In the night all cats are gray.Miguel de Cervantes
Goodnight.Lord Byron, last words
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.Eddie Canto
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.Steve Martin
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.Rodney Dangerfield
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.Woody Allen
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
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
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
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
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
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.George Carlin
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
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
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
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
