SLEEP : Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. (Lord Byron: English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)

SLEEP : Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. (William C. Dement: Professor of psychiatry, Born 1928)

SLEEP : Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SLEEP : For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. (Unknown Source: )

SLEEP : He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. (William D. Howells: U.S. novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed ‘The Dean of American Letters,’ 1837-1920)

SLEEP : It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

SLEEP : It is better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterwards. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

SLEEP : Night is the mother of thoughts. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)

SLEEP : O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

SLEEP : Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926)

SLEEP : Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. (Thomas Dekker: U.S. film, television actor, and musician, Born 1993)

SLEEP : Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

SLEEP : Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals . . . a nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. (Vladimir Nabokov: Russian-born novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977)

SLEEP : That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. (Unknown Source: )

SLEEP : The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)