Sleep Quotes
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.Anthony Burgess
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.Luigi Pirandello
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
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
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
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
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
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Italian Prove
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
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.Homer, The Iliad
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
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
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
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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
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
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
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
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.George Carlin
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John Milton
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.Psalm 1272 Bible
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
