Quotes of Slumber - somelinesforyou

“ Sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. ”

- Jean Paul Fichter

“ Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. ”

- Mary Wilson Little

“ I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot. ”

- Colin Farrell

“ This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ I don't sleep with happily married men. ”

- Britt Ekland

“ If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ”

- Henny Youngman

“ For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ It is not good a sleping hound to wake. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space. ”

- John Donne

“ If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. ”

- Bible

“ All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. ”

- William C. Bryant

“ Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ”

- Edgar F. Roberts

“ For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I dream of you to wake; would that I might dream of you and not wake but slumber on. ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. ”

- Giuseppe Mazzini

“ The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. ”

- Pierre Corneille

“ 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. ”

- Isaac Watts

“ To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ”

- Ernst Fischer

“ The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains. ”

- Alexander Cockburn

“ Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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