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

Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward¹.

Baltasar Gracian

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

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

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

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

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey²

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempner

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

Leo J. Burke

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery³ of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.

Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 07-22-06

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,

Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Steven Wright (1955 - )

I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)

Death's brother, Sleep.

Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

And where care lodges⁴, sleep will never lie;

But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain

Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign⁵.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act V, sc. 4

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"- the innocent sleep.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt⁶ weigh my eyelids⁷ down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act III, sc. 1

O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel⁸ lying.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act II, sc. 2

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit⁹, and look on death itself.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2