Sleeping Quotes

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

Exercise, Taken, Except

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Mark Twain

While, Rule, Smoke

I have no trouble sleeping.
Dalai Lama

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Two, Enough

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Country, Problem

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

Open, Eye, Seeing

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Mean, Stay

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

Thoughts, Moment, Another

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
Will Smith

Work, Working, While

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

Children, After, Sick

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino

Life, Time, Find

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto

Fear, Done, Him

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.
Puff Daddy

Sleep, Night, Working

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen

Sense, Last, Refuge

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
Dave Barry

Night, Same, Pill

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Sleep, Dream

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips

Alone, Night, Thanks

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon

War, Working, Fighting

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
Henry Rollins

Life, Home, Real

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes

Lost, Brain, Him

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Morning, Evening, Night

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.
Susan Orlean

Girl, Tired, Dream

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Benjamin Britten

Night, Old, Write

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
Hugh Jackman

Dad, Friends, Kids

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.
Pierre Trudeau

Friendly, Living, Matter

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
Betty White

Good, Sleep, Down

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.
Susan Orlean

Work, Thinking, Remember

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
Shirley MacLaine

Life, Art, Someone

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry

Hurt, Yourself, Sleep

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