“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck · On Writing, attributed
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“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Blaise Pascal · Lettres provinciales, 1657
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”
Charles Caleb Colton · Lacon, 1820
“I don't like mornings. They start too early.”
Groucho Marx · widely attributed
“I have a dream that one day I will wake up and feel rested.”
Groucho Marx · widely attributed
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735
“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, attributed
“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
George R.R. Martin · A Clash of Kings, 1998
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
Fran Lebowitz · The Fran Lebowitz Reader, 1994
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Confucius
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss · I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
