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| All are not asleep who have their eyes shut. German. | 1 |
| All who snore are not asleep. Danish. | 2 |
| Death’s half-brother, sleep. Dryden. | 3 |
| Do not go to sleep early and rise late. Hindu. | 4 |
| Every one will sleep as he makes his bed. Modern Greek. | 5 |
| He hath slept well who remembers not he slept ill. | 6 |
| He sleeps as dogs do when wives sift meal. | 7 |
| He sleeps soundly who has nothing to lose. French. | 8 |
| He who desireth to sleep soundly, let him buy the bed of a bankrupt. | 9 |
| He who lies long in bed his estate feels it. | 10 |
| He who sleeps alone keeps long cold; two soon warm each other. German. | 11 |
| He who sleeps by day will hunger by night. Detroit Free Press. | 12 |
| He who sleeps catches no fish. Italian. | 13 |
| He who sleeps much learns little. Spanish. | 14 |
| He who sleeps well does not feel the fleas. Italian. | 15 |
| If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom. Italian. | 16 |
| If men had not slept the tares had not been sown. | 17 |
| I’ll sleep on it. Dutch. | 18 |
| It is good to sleep in a whole skin. German, Dutch, Danish. | 19 |
| It is not for a man in authority to sleep a whole night. Homer. | 20 |
| Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pillow of a debtor. Spanish. | 21 |
| Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut. Italian. | 22 |
O sleep! it is a gentle thing;
Beloved from pole to pole. Coleridge. | 23 |
| One hour’s sleep before midnight is better than two after. French, German. | 24 |
| One must not take his cares to bed with him. German. | 25 |
| Quiet sleep feels no foul weather. | 26 |
| Slavery’s only service money—sweet sleep. Benjamin Disraeli. | 27 |
| Sleep is a sovereign physic. Massinger. | 28 |
| Sleep is a thief: it steals half one’s life. German. | 29 |
| Sleep is the brother of death. German. | 30 |
| Sleep makes every man as great or rich as the greatest. | 31 |
| Sleep not in time of peril. | 32 |
| Sleep over it and you will come to a resolution. Spanish. | 33 |
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath;
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast. Shakespeare. | 34 |
| Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye. Shakespeare. | 35 |
| Sleep to the sick is half health. German. | 36 |
| Sleep without supping and waste without owing. | 37 |
| The less a man sleeps the more he lives. | 38 |
| Those who come from labor and exercise sleep more sweetly than the inactive and effeminate. Alexander. | 39 |
| Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep. Young. | 40 |
| To sleep a dog’s sleep. | 41 |
| We are all equals when we are asleep. Don Quixote. | 42 |
| We can sleep with open gates—we have nothing to lose. Loyal Songs. | 43 |
When unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shakespeare. | 44 |
| Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly. Dutch. | 45 |
| Who goes to bed supperless all the night tumbles and tosses. | 46 |
| You should go to the land of Nod where they pay you for sleeping. | 47 |
| You would do well in Slumberland where they have half a crown a day for sleeping. | 48 |
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