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.

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.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Trust, but verify.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I’m the king of the anthems.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

A fool is wise in his eyes.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

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.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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.

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.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

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

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

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

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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.

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

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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.

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

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

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.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

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.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

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

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

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