Quotes4study

The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures.

_Macb._, ii. 2.

The world exists by change, and but for that / All matter would to chaos back / To form a pillar for a sleeping god.

_Anon._

But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5._

Like Sleeping Beauty, a snail may not wake until circumstances are favorable—though, like Rip Van Winkle, it may wake into a changed world.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Jesus sought some comfort at least in his three dearest friends, and they were asleep. He prayed them to watch with him awhile, and they left him with utter carelessness, having so little compassion that it could not hinder their sleeping even for a moment. And thus Jesus was left alone to the wrath of God.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Dennis had fallen asleep before Jules got home, though he denied it in that strange way that people often deny they’ve been sleeping.

Meg Wolitzer

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792-1822.     _Queen Mab. iv._

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold, / And envy base to bark at sleeping fame.

_Spenser._

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

Bhagavad Gita

So to living or dead let the solemn bell call; / Sleeping or waking, time passes with all.

_Dr. Walter Smith._

Best of all he liked to sleep. Sleeping was a very important activity for him. He liked to sleep for longish periods, great swathes of time. Merely sleeping overnight was not taking the business seriously. He enjoyed a good night's sleep and wouldn't miss one for the world, but found it as anything halfway near enough. He liked to be asleep by half-past eleven in the morning if possible, and if that should come directly after a nice leisurely lie-in then so much the better. A little light breakfast and a quick trip to the bathroom while fresh linen was applied to his bed is really all the activity he liked to undertake, and he took care that it didn't janate the sleepiness out of him and disturb his afternoon of napping. Sometimes he was able to spend an entire week asleep, and this he regarded as a good snooze. He had also slept through the whole of 1986 and hadn't missed it.

Douglas Adams, The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Pierre Trudeau (on Canadian relations with the US

Every Closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby

Never did that sacred opportunity to watch with Christ return to His disciples. Lost then, it was lost forever. And now when Jesus is still beholding the travail of His soul in the redemption of the world, if you fail to be with Him watching for souls as they that must give account, remember that the opportunity will never return. "Watch, therefore," says your Lord, "lest coming suddenly, He may find you sleeping."--_A. J. Gordon._

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

SIR WALTER SCOTT. 1771-1832.     _The Heart of Midlothian. Chap. viii._

Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!

SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 1605-1682.     _Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii._

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

Emo Phillips

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845.     _The Death-Bed._

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.

Paul Simon ~ And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said "The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sound of silence." ~ Paul Simon

Non destare il can che dorme=--Do not wake a sleeping dog.

_It. Pr._

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

William Nicholson

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.

Paul Simon ~ (Lyrics to "The Sound of Silence" — written on this day in 1964

Let sleeping dogs lie.

_Sc. Pr._

Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied; / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died.

_T. Hood._

The cold winds swept the mountain-height, And pathless was the dreary wild, And 'mid the cheerless hours of night A mother wandered with her child: As through the drifting snows she press'd, The babe was sleeping on her breast.

SEBA SMITH. 1792-1868.     _The Snow Storm._

I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me.

Juliana Hatfield

We are not wearied of eating and sleeping every day, because hunger and drowsiness are renewed; without that we should be weary of them. Thus without the hunger of spiritual things we grow weary of them. Hunger after righteousness, the eighth beatitude.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

This is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake.

Gandalf in The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Voltairine de Cleyre

like a cat sleeping on a fence: it could fall either way, or it could stay where it was.

Andrew Van Wey

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama XIV

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 1772-1834.     _The Ancient Mariner. Part v._

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

SAMUEL LOVER. 1797-1868.     _The Angel's Whisper._

Dachtet ihr, der Lowe schliefe, weil er nicht brullte?=--Did you think the lion was sleeping because it did not roar?

_Schiller._

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

_W. v. Humboldt._

Jesus, finding them still sleeping, unrestrained by any consideration for themselves or for him, had the tenderness not to wake them but to let them sleep on.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.

Jarod Kintz

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._

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when you don't sleep before fulfilling them.

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 1819-1891.     _Sonnet iv._

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.

H. P. Lovecraft

    better !pout !cry

    better watchout

    lpr why

    santa claus < north pole > town

    cat /etc/passwd > list

    ncheck list

    ncheck list

    cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist

    cat list | grep nice > giftlist

    santa claus < north pole > town

    who | grep sleeping</p>

    who | grep awake

    who | grep bad || good

    for (goodness sake) {

        be good

    }

Fortune Cookie

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

        -- Dean Rusk

Fortune Cookie

So, you better watch out!

You better not cry!

You better not pout!

I'm telling you why,

Santa Claus is coming, to town.

He knows when you've been sleeping,

He know when you're awake.

He knows if you've been bad or good,

He has ties with the CIA.

So...

Fortune Cookie

Hmmm ... A hash-singer and a cross-eyed guy were SLEEPING on a deserted

island, when ...

Fortune Cookie

Woody: What's going on, Mr. Peterson?

Norm:  Let's talk about what's going *in* Mr. Peterson.  A beer, Woody.

        -- Cheers, Paint Your Office

Sam:  How's life treating you?

Norm: It's not, Sammy, but that doesn't mean you can't.

        -- Cheers, A Kiss is Still a Kiss

Woody:  Can I pour you a draft, Mr. Peterson?

Norm:   A little early, isn't it Woody?

Woody:  For a beer?

Norm:   No, for stupid questions.

        -- Cheers, Let Sleeping Drakes Lie

Fortune Cookie

A little kid went up to Santa and asked him, "Santa, you know when I'm bad

right?"  And Santa says, "Yes, I do."  The little kid then asks, "And you

know when I'm sleeping?" To which Santa replies, "Every minute." So the

little kid then says, "Well, if you know when I'm bad and when I'm good,

then how come you don't know what I want for Christmas?"

Fortune Cookie

* Jes wonders why so many people in here uses fooZZZZZ and foo_sleeping nicks

<peter> Jes: Because they are sleeping?

        -- Seen on #Linux

Fortune Cookie

What segment's this, that, laid to rest

On FHA0, is sleeping?

What system file, lay here a while    This, this is "acct.run,"

While hackers around it were weeping?    Accounting file for everyone.

                    Dump, dump it and type it out,

                    The file, the highseg of login.

Why lies it here, on public disk

And why is it now unprotected?

A bug in incant, made it thus.        Mount, mount all your DECtapes now

And copy the file somehow, somehow.    The problem has not been corrected.

                    Dump, dump it and type it out,

                    The file, the highseg of login.

        -- to Greensleeves

Fortune Cookie

Let sleeping dogs lie.

        -- Charles Dickens

Fortune Cookie

What's this script do?

    unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep

Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're

in a sleeping bag, camping out.

(Contributed by Frans van der Zande.)

Fortune Cookie

... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those

who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,

and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious

and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

        -- Voltarine de Cleyre

Fortune Cookie

    Once there was a marine biologist who loved dolphins. He spent his

time trying to feed and protect his beloved creatures of the sea.  One day,

in a fit of inventive genius, he came up with a serum that would make

dolphins live forever!

    Of course he was ecstatic. But he soon realized that in order to mass

produce this serum he would need large amounts of a certain compound that was

only found in nature in the metabolism of a rare South American bird.  Carried

away by his love for dolphins, he resolved that he would go to the zoo and

steal one of these birds.

    Unbeknownst to him, as he was arriving at the zoo an elderly lion was

escaping from its cage.  The zookeepers were alarmed and immediately began

combing the zoo for the escaped animal, unaware that it had simply lain down

on the sidewalk and had gone to sleep.

    Meanwhile, the marine biologist arrived at the zoo and procured his

bird.  He was so excited by the prospect of helping his dolphins that he

stepped absentmindedly stepped over the sleeping lion on his way back to his

car.  Immediately, 1500 policemen converged on him and arrested him for

transporting a myna across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.

Fortune Cookie

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our

thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another

in the waking state?

        -- Plato

Fortune Cookie

We decided it was night again, so we camped for twenty minutes and drank

another six beers at a Young Life campsite.  O.C. got into the supervisory

adult's sleeping bag and ran around in it.  "This is the judgment day and I'm

a terrifying apparition," he screamed.  Then the heat made O.C. ralph in the

bag.

-- The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs,

   National Lampoon, October 1982

Fortune Cookie

Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your troubles.

Fortune Cookie

Stopping Apache webserver...sleeping...starting again...apache: dl-version.c:189:

 _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

        -- netgod on #Debian at LISC

Fortune Cookie

All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated. He planned another garden and began a new building for the domestic serfs. The only thing that made Princess Mary anxious about him was that he slept very little and, instead of sleeping in his study as usual, changed his sleeping place every day. One day he would order his camp bed to be set up in the glass gallery, another day he remained on the couch or on the lounge chair in the drawing room and dozed there without undressing, while--instead of Mademoiselle Bourienne--a serf boy read to him. Then again he would spend a night in the dining room.

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a yellow capital ornamented with this inscription:

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

Robert here entered, and Bessie laid her sleeping child in the cradle and went to welcome him: afterwards she insisted on my taking off my bonnet and having some tea; for she said I looked pale and tired. I was glad to accept her hospitality; and I submitted to be relieved of my travelling garb just as passively as I used to let her undress me when a child.

Charlotte Bronte     Jane Eyre

Early in the morning I went out to Smolny. Going up the long wooden sidewalk from the outer gate I saw the first thin, hesitating snow-flakes fluttering down from the grey, windless sky. “Snow!” cried the soldier at the door, grinning with delight. “Good for the health!” Inside, the long, gloomy halls and bleak rooms seemed deserted. No one moved in all the enormous pile. A deep, uneasy sound came to my ears, and looking around, I noticed that everywhere on the floor, along the walls, men were sleeping. Rough, dirty men, workers and soldiers, spattered and caked with mud, sprawled alone or in heaps, in the careless attitudes of death. Some wore ragged bandages marked with blood. Guns and cartridge-belts were scattered about.... The victorious proletarian army!

John Reed     Ten Days That Shook the World

"Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one."

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"Sonya?" she thought, glancing at that curled-up, sleeping little kitten with her enormous plait of hair. "No, how could she? She's virtuous. She fell in love with Nicholas and does not wish to know anything more. Even Mamma does not understand. It is wonderful how clever I am and how... charming she is," she went on, speaking of herself in the third person, and imagining it was some very wise man--the wisest and best of men--who was saying it of her. "There is everything, everything in her," continued this man. "She is unusually intelligent, charming... and then she is pretty, uncommonly pretty, and agile--she swims and rides splendidly... and her voice! One can really say it's a wonderful voice!"

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

"Biddy," said I, when I talked with her after dinner, as her little girl lay sleeping in her lap, "you must give Pip to me one of these days; or lend him, at all events."

Charles Dickens     Great Expectations

"Yes," answered the doctor laconically, dropping the sheet he had raised. Noirtier uttered a kind of hoarse, rattling sound; the old man's eyes sparkled, and the good doctor understood that he wished to behold his child. He therefore approached the bed, and while his companion was dipping the fingers with which he had touched the lips of the corpse in chloride of lime, he uncovered the calm and pale face, which looked like that of a sleeping angel. A tear, which appeared in the old man's eye, expressed his thanks to the doctor. The doctor of the dead then laid his permit on the corner of the table, and having fulfilled his duty, was conducted out by d'Avrigny. Villefort met them at the door of his study; having in a few words thanked the district doctor, he turned to d'Avrigny, and said,--"And now the priest."

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

"I am giving them the slip," said Eugenie; "this woman to whom we have given twenty louis may betray us for forty; we will soon alter our direction." And the young girl jumped into the britzska, which was admirably arranged for sleeping in, without scarcely touching the step. "You are always right," said the music teacher, seating herself by the side of her friend.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

6:7. And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY     OLD TESTAMENT

This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of the sleeping Bishop.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

"With that she did as she had said she would; she went to bed, and did not lock her door. In the morning she came out. 'Are you quite mad?' she said, sharply. 'Why, you'll die of hunger like this.' 'Forgive me,' I said. 'No, I won't, and I won't marry you. I've said it. Surely you haven't sat in this chair all night without sleeping?' 'I didn't sleep,' I said. 'H'm! how sensible of you. And are you going to have no breakfast or dinner today?' 'I told you I wouldn't. Forgive me!' 'You've no idea how unbecoming this sort of thing is to you,' she said, 'it's like putting a saddle on a cow's back. Do you think you are frightening me? My word, what a dreadful thing that you should sit here and eat no food! How terribly frightened I am!' She wasn't angry long, and didn't seem to remember my offence at all. I was surprised, for she is a vindictive, resentful woman--but then I thought that perhaps she despised me too much to feel any resentment against me. And that's the

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Idiot

Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.

Herman Melville     Moby Dick; or The Whale

"I didn't expect it in the least. Only fancy, he is jealous of the Pole. 'Why are you keeping him?' he said. 'So you've begun keeping him.' He is jealous, jealous of me all the time, jealous eating and sleeping! He even took it into his head to be jealous of Kuzma last week."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Brothers Karamazov

His story being ended with his pipe's last dying puff, Queequeg embraced me, pressed his forehead against mine, and blowing out the light, we rolled over from each other, this way and that, and very soon were sleeping.

Herman Melville     Moby Dick; or The Whale

But, though these barbarians dined in the cabin, and nominally lived there; still, being anything but sedentary in their habits, they were scarcely ever in it except at mealtimes, and just before sleeping-time, when they passed through it to their own peculiar quarters.

Herman Melville     Moby Dick; or The Whale

"Then all became clear and manifest to me, and I reproached myself with what had happened, as though I myself had done the guilty deed. I fancied that I still heard faint moans, and imagining that the unfortunate jeweller might not be quite dead, I determined to go to his relief, by way of atoning in some slight degree, not for the crime I had committed, but for that which I had not endeavored to prevent. For this purpose I applied all the strength I possessed to force an entrance from the cramped spot in which I lay to the adjoining room. The poorly fastened boards which alone divided me from it yielded to my efforts, and I found myself in the house. Hastily snatching up the lighted candle, I hurried to the staircase; about midway a body was lying quite across the stairs. It was that of La Carconte. The pistol I had heard had doubtless been fired at her. The shot had frightfully lacerated her throat, leaving two gaping wounds from which, as well as the mouth, the blood was pouring in floods. She was stone dead. I strode past her, and ascended to the sleeping chamber, which presented an appearance of the wildest disorder. The furniture had been knocked over in the deadly struggle that had taken place there, and the sheets, to which the unfortunate jeweller had doubtless clung, were dragged across the room. The murdered man lay on the floor, his head leaning against the wall, and about him was a pool of blood which poured forth from three large wounds in his breast; there was a fourth gash, in which a long table knife was plunged up to the handle.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

4:7. For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in a parlour, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head they went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.

THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS     OLD TESTAMENT

And in his despair he was on the point of attacking the sleeping man again, but stopped short at once, realizing the uselessness of his efforts. The priest said nothing, the sleepy forester looked gloomy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Brothers Karamazov

After the ceremony was performed a large party assembled at my father's, but it was agreed that Elizabeth and I should commence our journey by water, sleeping that night at Evian and continuing our voyage on the following day. The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley     Frankenstein

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