Famous quotes containing the words poor, sleep and/or quality:
“Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.”
—George Herbert (15931633)
“But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying downvery important traits in times like these. In fact, just as soon as a dog comes along who, in addition to these qualities, also knows when to buy and sell stocks, he can be moved right up to the boys bedroom and the boy can sleep in the dog house.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in mannerin brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)