Best pleasure & sleep Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.”

Home Sleep Walks Pleasure Sweet Healthy Eating Wake Up Guilty Tempted Back Home Up Early Guilty Pleasure

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.”

Giving Writing Force Hours Sleep Pleasure Trifles Unproductive

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.”

Grows Dark Sleep Pleasure Conscience Flow Tides Wickedness Awakened Sentinels

Book:The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

Source: The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

“My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.”

Mind Sex Water Sleep Pleasure Cold Drink Compare Cigarette Liquor Thirsty Spun Cold Water

Book:This Immortal

Source: This Immortal

“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”

Self Moments Names Sex Bits Sleep Pleasure Pride Demand Vanity Demon Broads Autonomous Prowess Undefined

Author:J. V. Cunningham

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

Ifs Should Firsts Heart Littles Pain Suffering Dies Asks Sleep Pleasure Liberty Excuse Going To Sleep

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.”

Ifs Wells Dream Sleep Pleasure Painful Avoided Pleasures Of Life

Book:The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: To which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays

Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: To which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays

“Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.”

Feels Seems Fighting Natural Sleep Pleasure Pay Virtue Majors Anxious Inclination Respectable Puritan Luxurious Unproductive

Author:Barbara Holland

“Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.”

Ifs Heart Dream Night Fall Sleep Pleasure Brain Vision Sweet Gay Sight Busy Warm Charm Stillness Good Night Sweet Sleep

Book:Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy

Source: Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy

“Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.”

Ifs Men Sleep Pleasure Source Morality Labor Innocent Forbidden Fountain Relaxation Maxims Recreation Intervals Liable Intemperance

Author:Orville Dewey

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?”

Ifs Men Night Sex Sleep Pleasure Men And Women Cat Londoners

Book:After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.”

Want Years Children Self Purpose Work Sleep Pleasure Willing Comfort Activity Deny Ease Defeated Restless

Author:Ida Tarbell

“Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.”

Light Joy Night Sleep Pleasure Wings Spread Butterfly Moths Glare

Author:W. H. Davies

“There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure.”

Thinking Knows Able Night Sleep Pleasure Nice Planets Tomorrow Privilege Get Up Activist Going To Sleep

Author:Assata Shakur

“Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.”

Should Hard Sleep Pleasure Break Successful Hard Work Plenty Hallmark Idlers

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

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