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
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
- Mary Stewart
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
- Evan Davis
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Bible
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
- Anonymous
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
- Thomas Dekker
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo
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
When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane.
- Lady Ann Barnard
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- Stephen Wright
withered nosegay which he pulled the day before.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls'
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Bible
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
- Joan Klempner
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
- Anonymous
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
- Bible
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.
- Samuel Daniel
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
- Bible
But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
