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“Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”

Humans Hard Wisdom Sleep Fool Sorrow Advantage Boat Streams Vessel Free Yourself

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?”

Ifs Kind Littles Stills Done Light Artist Hours Sleep Fool Bed Office Drawing Dawn Iphone Office Hours

Author:David Hockney

“Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]”

Giving Death Sleep Fate Fool Eternal

Author:Ovid

“A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.”

Should Wells Stories Seems Sleep Wise Fool Please Applause Deviate Concise

Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet

“O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?”

Death Sleep Fool Chill

Author:Ovid

“'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

Sleep Lord Dangerous Danger Flower Fool Cold Drink Safety Pluck Nettles

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

Want Ends Might Sleep Fool Russia Tales Versions Fairy Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty

Book:Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”

Sleep Fool Speech Ears

Book:Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott

Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott

“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”

Heart Mean Stories Body Past Lost Social Sleep Grace Fool Habit Oneself Love Story Consuming Sullen Social Graces

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.”

Men Children Said Parent Sleep Son Baby Fool Daughter Parenting

Book:The Serpent's Tale

Source: The Serpent's Tale