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Part two of a really good night quotes collection
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.27
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.28
- Marcus Aurelius
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.29
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.30
- Marie Corelli
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.31
- William Shakespeare
Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.32
- Milton R. Sapirstein
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.33
- Henry Ward Beecher
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.34
- Ornette Coleman
There is a budding morrow in midnight.35
- John Keats
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.36
- Pablo Picasso
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.37
- Georges Rouault
A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.38
- Homer
You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.39
- Nikita Khrushchev
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.40
- Alexander Pope
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.41
- Gyorgy Kepes
Heathen, n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.42
- Ambrose Bierce
A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'43
- James Hines
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.44
- Hal Borland
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.45
- e. e. cummings
It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.46
- Willie Sutton
Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.47
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Well, God is certainly getting an earful tonight.48
- Jim Murray
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.49
- Casey Stengel
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.50
- Samuel Johnson
There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.
- Anonymous
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