CALVIN: Some days you get up and you already know that things aren’t going to go well. They’re the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate, and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging.
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There is a time for long tales, but there is also a time for sleep.
[Ὥρη μὲν πολέων μύθων, ὥρη δὲ καὶ ὕπνου.]
Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 11, l. 379 (11.379) [Odysseus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Rieu (1946)]
(Source)
On being asked by King Alcinoüs to continue his tale of journeying to the Land of the Dead.
(Source (Greek)). Other translations:“Most eminent king,” said he, “times all must keep,
There’s time to speak much, time as much to sleep."
[tr. Chapman (1616)]There is a time for talk, a time for rest.
[tr. Hobbes (1675), l. 362]Since yet the early hour of night allows
Time for discourse, and time for soft repose.
[tr. Pope (1725)]The time suffices yet
For converse both and sleep.
[tr. Cowper (1792), l. 460-61]Night is the time for converse, night for rest.
[tr. Worsley (1861), st. 54]A time there is for speech
Howe'er prolong'd: a time, too, for repose.
[tr. Musgrave (1869), l. 585]A time there is for tales -- and a time for sleep!
[tr. Bigge-Wither (1869), l. 378]There is a time for many words and there is a time for sleep.
[tr. Butcher/Lang (1879)]Time is for words abundant, and time for sleep maybe.
[tr. Morris (1887)]There is a time for stories and a time for sleep.
[tr. Palmer (1891)]There is a time for making speeches, and a time for going to bed.
[tr. Butler (1898)]There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.
[tr. Murray (1919)]Surely there is a time for long speaking and a time for sleep.
[tr. Lawrence (1932)]There is a time for story telling; there is
also a time for sleep.
[tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]There is a time for many words, and a time for sleeping.
[tr. Lattimore (1965)]It's true that there's still time for tales and talk,
yet there is, too, a time for sleep.
[tr. Mandelbaum (1990)]There is a time for many words, a time for sleep as well.
[tr. Fagles (1996)]There is a time for words and a time for sleep.
[tr. Lombardo (2000), l. 389]There is a time for long tales, but there is also a time for sleep.
[tr. DCH Rieu (2002)]There is a time for words, and a time for sleep.
[tr. Kline (2004)]There is a time for long tales, and there is a time for sleep.
[tr. Verity (2016)]It is a time for many tales, but also
a time for sleep.
[tr. Wilson (2017); print text shown]There's a time for long stories, and a time for sleep.
[tr. Green (2018)]There’s a time
for many stories and a time for sleep.
[tr. Johnston (2019), l. 477-78]
