Night Quotes

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Prove

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Willie Sutton

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 their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Eudora Welty

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

Jerry Coleman

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

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

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

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

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

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond

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

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten - Pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Tommy Coope