Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies
parties don't count
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies
parties don't count
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
Source: [Howell, James, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22, Google Books, 1655 Edition, 20 September 2016]
“2788. If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel…
Sleeping our noons away”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
“I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: Jsem jen alkoholik, co se stal spisovatelem, aby mohl zůstat v posteli do poledne.