Sleep Quotes
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Italian Prove
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.Anthony Burgess
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.Sir John Lubbock
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.Georges Jacques Danton
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
The net of the sleeper catches fish.Greek Prove
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
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
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.Doctor Who
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
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
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850
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
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.J. G. Ballard
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
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens.Jerry Maguire
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.Robert Frost
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.Henry Ward Beeche
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.Heinrich Heine
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
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
Decency... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.Quentin Crisp
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.Joseph Heller, Catch 22
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.Luigi Pirandello
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
