Famous quotes containing the words nocturnal and/or state:
“Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“The story is told of a man who, seeing one of the thoroughbred stables for the first time, suddenly removed his hat and said in awed tones, My Lord! The cathedral of the horse.”
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)