“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Lucky Australians! They can go on sleeping for another seven hours and stil pass as early risers.”
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“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]
Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) Welsh poet
Oriau hydr yr ehedydd
A dry fry o'i dŷ bob dydd,
Borewr byd, berw aur bill,
Barth â'r wybr, borthor Ebrill.
"Yr Ehedydd" (The Skylark), line 1; translation from Dafydd ap Gwilym (ed. and trans. Rachel Bromwich) A Selection of Poems (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1982] 1985) p. 74.
“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Song: Oh never another dream can be
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.”
Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Brigitte Lin (1954) Taiwanese actress
As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018) https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2018/05/15/2003693091
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath