Sleep Quotes
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.Evan Davis
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.Homer, The Iliad
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.Steward Alsop
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.Clive Staples Lewis
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.Thomas Dekke
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.Homer, The Iliad
I know a mother - In - Law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son - In - Law suffer in her dreams.Ernest Coquelin
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.Anatole France
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.Home
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.Henry Vaughn
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.Baltasar Gracian
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.Jessamyn West
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.John Donne
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
