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My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. – Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. – Marion Howard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
. . . .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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. – Benjamin Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? – John Keats	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Sir Walter Scott	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. – Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. – Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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. – Edna St. Vincent Millay	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past! – Lewis Carroll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME! – Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - broadcast on February 6, 1997	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. – Neil Gaiman, Good Omens	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded. – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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