|
Go to bed early, get up early--this is wise. Some authorities
say get up with one thing, some with another. But a lark is really the
best thing to get up with. It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody
to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of
a lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half-past
nine, every time--it is no trick at all. Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have
done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. |
 Mark Twain statue by Gary Price in front of the Midland Theatre in downtown Newark, Ohio. Photo courtesy of Kevin Jones. |
 |
(I) turned in and slept like a log--I don't mean a brisk, fresh, green
log, but an old dead, soggy rotten one, that never turns over or gives
a yelp. |
I hate a man who goes to sleep at once; there is a sort of indefinable something
about it which is not exactly an insult, and yet is an insolence. I got to feeling
very lonely, with no company but an undigested dinner.
- A Tramp Abroad
Quotations | Newspaper Articles | Special Features | Links | Search