“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Adventures in Czarist Russia.
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Adventures in Czarist Russia.
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
1790s
“I’ll stay awake while reason sleeps.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) American journalist
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 136.
Eliseo Vivas (1901–1993) American philosopher
The Moral Life and the Ethical Life (Chicago: 1950), p. 4
“I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live.”
Doris Haddock (1910–2010) American political activist
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
1990s, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
Context: Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
"Pope: welcoming refugees helps keeps us safe from terrorism", Lexington Herald-Leader (17 September 2016) http://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/world/article102453732.html <br class="br">2010s, 2016
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2015, April 22). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153227326970610/ <br class="br">2015, Facebook