Sleep Quotes
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
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
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
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
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.Doctor Who
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
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
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even - Tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. On relations with the US.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Italian Prove
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
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
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.Joan Klempne
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
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
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
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
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
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)
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
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.Anonymous
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
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
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
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
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
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.Thomas Dekke
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
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
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
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John Milton
