Night Stand

Famous quotes containing the words night and/or stand:

“There is something singularly grand and impressive in the sound of a tree falling in a perfectly calm night like this, as if the agencies which overthrow it did not need to be excited, but worked with a subtle, deliberate, and conscious force, like a boa-constrictor, and more effectively then than even in a windy day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are
a hundred that will stand adversity.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)