Midnight Man

Famous quotes containing the words midnight and/or man:

    And yet what good were yesterday’s devotions?
    I affirm and then at midnight the great cat
    Leaps quickly from the fireside and is gone.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)