
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”
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.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
Reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude, The Complete Art of Public Speaking (1970), p. 84.
“Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel…
Sleeping our noons away”
Source: Japanese Haiku