Sleeps Quotes

250 quotes by 210 authors

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and… — James Allen
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. — Emile M. Cioran
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2. — Ernest K. Gann
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. — John Milton
She sleeps alone at last. — Robert Benchley
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his… — Walt Whitman
The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If… — Winston Churchill
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. — Charles Baudelaire
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens… — Antonio Machado
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. — William Dean Howells
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
Heaven and hell are not geographical; they are not something outside you, they are something that belongs to your interiority. If you are awake, then… — Rajneesh
The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a… — Rajneesh
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. — Karl Kraus
A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin. — Fred Schwab

Who Wrote These Sleeps Quotes

210 authors contributed a total of 250 Sleeps Quotes, led by these top contributors: