Who here is so base that would be a bondman If any, speak; for him I have offended. (Julius Caesar)
Sleep Quotes
“Did you sleep well?” – “No, I made a couple of mistakes.”
How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee And hush’d […]
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
It would be an injury to the memory of Boerhaave, not to mention what was related by himself to one of his friends, that when he lay whole days and nights without sleep, he found no method of diverting his thoughts so effectual, as meditation upon his studies, and that he often relieved and mitigated […]
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor’s maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
I don’t smoke. I just don’t sleep, man, that’s the trouble. I gotta sleep sometime… why sleep, man? I might miss a party.
I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: “What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!” You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
