
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
1790s
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
1790s
“We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out”
"The Bed"
Actor (2009)
Context: We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out
With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson. We've got to teach them all a lesson.
“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
Similar remarks are also attributed to Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and to Mark Twain
Disputed
The Width of a Circle
Song lyrics, The Man Who Sold the World (1970)