Night Quotes

Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutheford

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World

Goodnight.

Lord Byron, last words

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

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

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

Buddy Hackett

To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Ronald Reagan