“When you sleep in your cloak there ’s no lodging to pay.”
Boots and Saddles.
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George Whyte-Melville4
Scottish writer 1821–1878Related quotes
“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones
Variant: I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.
Source: Bloody Bones
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 35e
“In a cloak of truth disguise your scheming.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Fa manto del vero alia menzogna.
Canto IV, stanza 25 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
“I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Fang
“O dream on your black wings
you come when I am sleeping.”
Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet
The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.13