“"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.”
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) American poet
"Early Rising".
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.
"Early Rising".
“"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.”
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) American poet
"Early Rising".
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 68.
“Bless yourself first before expecting God to bless you.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
Jacques Deval (1890–1972) French film director and writer
Quoted in Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations (1992), p. 22
“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Trilogy, pt. 3 "Torture at H Block"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems