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Part seven of a really good night quotes collection
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I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.152
- Dudley Moore
I was with this girl the other night, and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.153
- Emo Philips
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.154
- Richard Armour
Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.155
- Robert De Niro
By night an atheist half believes in God.156
- Edward Young
The year's in the wane; There is nothing adoring; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!157
- Thomas Hood
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?158
- William Law
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.159
- Lord Byron
Curfew must not ring tonight.160
- Rosa H. Thorpe
The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.161
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.162
- Dinah Mulock Craik
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring - not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.163
- Clement C. Moore
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.164
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.165
- Walter Colton
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.166
- Leigh Hunt
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.167
- Bible
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night.168
- William Shakespeare
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.169
- Joseph Rodman Drake
Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.170
- Wilbur D. Nesbit
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.171
- Walt Whitman
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.172
- Honore de Balzac
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.173
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.174
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home - Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, - one step enough for me.175
- John Henry Newman
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
- Alexander Pope
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