“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Quotes about riser
A collection of quotes on the topic of riser, sleep, sleeping.
Quotes about riser
“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]
“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
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.
“Lucky Australians! They can go on sleeping for another seven hours and stil pass as early risers.”
Caryl Brahms (1901–1982) English critic, novelist, and journalist
Ooh! La-La!
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)