He sleeps awake. [ Plaut ]
He who sleeps, dines. [ A. Dumas ]
He sleeps enough who does nothing. [ French Proverb ]
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. [ Proverb ]
The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. [ Tate and Brady ]
The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart. [ Wordsworth ]
A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. [ William Shakespeare ]
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
When a man sleeps his head is in his stomach. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. [ Dryden ]
Tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is over. [ Pope ]
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! [ William Shakespeare ]
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre over a slumbering world.
Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound!
Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds;
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end. [ Young ]
Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. [ Rousseau ]
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems. [ Milton ]
He sleeps well who is not conscious that he sleeps ill. [ Bacon ]
Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]
Weep not for him that dieth; for he sleeps, and is at rest. [ Mrs. Norton ]
He is so wary that he sleeps like a hare, with his eyes open. [ Proverb ]
He who sleeps all the morning may go a begging all the day after. [ Proverb ]
The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. [ Addison ]
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. [ Quarles ]
He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake, (i.e. is wide awake, though pretending not to see). [ Scotch Proverb ]
Like the smith's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers, and wakes at the crashing of teeth. [ Proverb ]
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. [ Emerson ]
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams - they are the world in which he lives. [ Bettina von Arnim ]
We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]