The night has ears. – Masai
Category Archives: NIGHT
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
Men returning home on these nights have been led astray by the " faeu Bellengier " or Will o' the wisp, and when they believed themselves to be close to their own doors have found themselves, they knew not how, in quite another part of the island. GUERNSEY.
Night calls, frogs, not sleeping . Miranda Aitken
http://www.australianpoetry.org/misc/night-calls-frogs-not-sleeping-2/
And while Mr. Jeremy sat disconsolately on the edge of his boat—sucking his sore fingers and peering down into the water—a MUCH worse thing happened; a really FRIGHTFUL thing it would have been, if Mr. Jeremy had not been wearing a mackintosh!
A great big enormous trout came up—ker-pflop-p-p-p! with a splash— and it seized Mr. Jeremy with a snap, “Ow! Ow! Ow!”—and then it turned and dived down to the bottom of the pond!
But the trout was so displeased with the taste of the mackintosh, that in less than half a minute it spat him out again; and the only thing it swallowed was Mr. Jeremy’s galoshes.
by Beatrix Potter
“THE TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHER”
Prophet said: “Whoever stood for the prayers in the night of Qadr out of sincere faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven”
NIGHTS
At times my name gets tired of me
And wanders off into the dark:
Some times it claws me with a bark
Some times it leaves me almost free
And wanders off into the dark:
Some times it claws me with a bark
Some times it leaves me almost free
And then I cannot see a thing
And flesh is barely tied to soul:
Those nights the density of coal
Those nights when I am not a king
Then hours bunch up to watch me fall
And I am turned into a prayer:
Some nights I circle God’s dark lair
Some nights an endless night is all
© 2005, Kevin Hart
From: Dark Retreat
From: Dark Retreat
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
It’s a braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht
It’s a good (or brilliant) bright moonlight night tonight.
http://scotlandwelcomesyou.com/scottish-sayings/
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. Dylan Thomas
http://www.drmardy.com/chiasmus/types.shtml
I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven “Nevermore!”
Edgar Allen Poe.
Ciakorire wacu mugunda
The food found Wacu in the field.
The proverb originates in the legend of Wacu, the most despised amongst the wives of a rich man who never gave her any presents. One day, when a banquet was being held at home, she went to work in the field, since she knew there would be nothing for her at home. In the middle of the banquet a raven swooped down in the courtyard where the meat was being roasted, snatched a big piece and brought it to Wacu.
The Kikuyu use the proverb to say that God takes care of His poor.
“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged” Rumi
foto of wide river cafe sign in ulmarra on the clarence river of nsw
And at night as I lay a-dreaming, I woke, and a silver moon
Shone fair on a dancing river and laughed to a broad lagoon,
And the grass turned over the fences and rippled like ripening grain,
And clouds hung low on the hilltops, and earth smelt sweet with the rain.
The Last Muster
William H Ogilvie
The day is for working, the night is for resting.
Gwakia kwarama, gwatuka gwakundeera
There is a time to wink as well as to see.
http://www.misterseed.com/link%20pages/PROVERBS2.htm
“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which colour to slide down on the rainbow.”
Douglas Pagels
Confucius say: Man who drop watch in toilet, bound to have shitty time.
http://www.inspirational-quotes-short-funny-stuff.com/funny-confucius.html
SLIM NEWTON
There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
I jumped high up into the air,
And when I hit the ground,
That crafty red-back spider
Wasn’t nowhere to be found.
There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.
Rushed in to the missus,
Told her just where I’d been bit,
She grabbed the cut-throat razor blade,
And I nearly took a fit.
I said “Just forget what’s on your mind,
And call a doctor please,
‘Cause I’ve got a feeling that your cure
Is worse than the disease.”
There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.
I can’t lay down, I can’t sit up,
And I don’t know what to do,
And all the nurses think it’s funny,
But that’s not my point of view.
I tell you it’s embarrassing,
(And that’s to say the least)
That I’m too sick to eat a bite,
While that spider had a feast!
There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.
And when I get back home again,
I tell you what I’ll do,
I’ll make that red-back suffer
For the pain I’m going through.
I’ve had so many needles
That I’m looking like a sieve,
And I promise you that spider
Hasn’t very long to live!
There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.
A year is a day if life continues.
(African-Hausa proverb)
In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like Gargoyles.
– Keith David
“A chap’s bedroom – you can’t get way from it – is his castle, and he has every right to look askance if gargoyles come glaring in at him.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
“I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.”
― Robert Frost
The morning is wiser than the evening.
http://www.wow4u.com/proverbs/index.html
“The basic problem with the world today is the unbalance between the male and female aspects, the unbalance between our inner and outer world, the unbalance between knowledge and wisdom, the unbalance between intellect and intuition and the unbalance between activity and rest.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart – An Introduction to Giten’s Approach to Life
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
― Stephen King
Be safe on this wicked night.”
― Sandy DeLuca, Manhattan Grimoire
This shall be home, where danger was my cradle, and all we have learned will guard us!
― Brian W. Aldiss, The Long Afternoon of Earth
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race–never quite sane in the night.
– Mark Twain’s Autobiography
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
― D.H. Lawrence
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer, Greek epic poet, (Eighth Century BC)
“Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.”
― Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
“I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
(moby dick chap 26 p112)”
― Herman Melville
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
― Poppy Z. Brite
“As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. ‘What’s in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you’ll encounter in the depths of the ocean. An imagination is a powerful thing.”
― Shelley Coriell, Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe
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