Sleeping Dogs Lie

Famous quotes containing the words sleeping, dogs and/or lie:

    “When I think of him, and his six sons, and his son-in-law, not to enumerate the others, enlisted for this fight, proceeding coolly, reverently, humanely to work, for months if not years, sleeping and waking upon it, summering and wintering the thought, without expecting any reward but a good conscience, while almost all America stood ranked on the other side,—I say again that it affects me as a sublime spectacle.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They said they were an-hungry; sighed forth proverbs—
    That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
    That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
    Corn for the rich men only.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)