The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

I have no trouble sleeping.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

When in doubt, don’t.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Let no such man be trusted.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mind over mattress.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

I’m the king of the anthems.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

He that’s secure is not safe.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.