Sleep Quotes
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
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
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John Milton
Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.RicS
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
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.Nikola Tesla
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.Home
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
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
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
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.Evan Davis
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.Luigi Pirandello
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
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
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.Joan Klempne
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.Mary Stewart
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
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
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
