Famous quotes containing the words poor, sleep and/or quality:
“Ai, ai, poor mother,
your birth-pangs were fruitless:
I am wroth with these spirits.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
““What care I for a goose-feather bed,
With the sheet turned down so bravely, O?
For to-night I shall sleep in a cold open field,
Along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, O!””
—Unknown. The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies (l. 33–36)
“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.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)