Sleep Quotes
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".
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
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.Jessamyn West
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.Bhagavad Gita
Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.RicS
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.Home
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
The net of the sleeper catches fish.Greek Prove
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
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
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
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
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
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
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
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.Anthony Burgess
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
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
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
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
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
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
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
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
