“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies
Source: Vile Bodies (1930)
“I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.”
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
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“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
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“Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.
Variant translations: Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
“And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep—
And good-by to the bar and its moaning.”
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
The Three Fishers, st. 3,
“I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.”
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
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