Do not wake a sleeping dog. [ Italian Proverb ]
On such a tranquil night as this,
She woke Endymion with a kiss,
When sleeping in the grove,
He dreamed not of her love. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
How calm - how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms have gone,
When warring winds have died away
And clouds, beneath the dancing ray
Melt off and leave the land and sea,
Sleeping in bright tranquillity. [ Moore ]
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. [ Lowell ]
Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame. [ Spenser ]
If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping. [ Yogi Berra ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
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Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
Sleeping all the morning makes it night till noon. [ Proverb ]
The sleeping partner of life - a change of existence. [ Paul Chatfield ]
An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch over what they love while sleeping. [ Byron ]
A sleeping beggar is just as happy as a sleeping king. [ J. Linen ]
Sleeping foxes have nothing tailing into their mouths. [ Proverb ]
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant. [ William Shakespeare ]
We thought her dying while she slept, and sleeping when she died. [ Hood ]
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. [ L. B. Landon ]
Sweet the young muse with love intense. Which smiles over sleeping innocence. [ Smart ]
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles? [ Saadi ]
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. [ Carlyle ]
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]
Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. But let another person try my way, and see where he will come out. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]