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Quotations by Subject: Sleep (25 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.: Quentin Crisp
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), 1850
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.: J.G. Ballard
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.: William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death.: PJ O'Rourke

Results from Poor Man's College:

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.: Sterne

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