Night Quotes

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
From "Taxi".
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
George orwell - people sleep peacably in their beds at night only...
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
Andy Warhol
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
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
Japanese prove - vision without action is a daydream. action...
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
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
Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me.
Blade
Chinese prove - the man who does not learn is dark, like one...
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.
Henry David Thoreau
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
George Weiss
This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.
John F. Kennedy, 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
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
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
Weather forecast for tonight dark.
George Carlin
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace, Odes
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
Dr. Jonas Salk
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Lord John Whorfin
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
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace
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
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
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Unknown
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
There never was night that had no morn.
Dinah Mulock Craik
Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.
So I Married an Axe Murdere
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
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.
The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen