“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 34.
“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
Variant: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Source: Paradise Lost
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”
Ted Turner (1938) American media mogul and philanthropist
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
John Neal, as quoted in The Journal of Education for Upper Canada Vol. III (1850)
Misattributed
George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Second Part.
Second Part of Narrative
“Better sit still, men say, than rise to fall.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) English translator
Book II, stanza 79
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You