Sleep Quotes

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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 time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

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

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Author Unknown

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

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

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

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Anonymous

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempne

Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J. G. Ballard

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus