Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

Robert Southey
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard. - William Shakespeare

  2. One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams. - E. V. Lucas

  3. Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  4. Sleep faster we need the pillows. - Jewish Proverb

  5. 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. - Aldous Huxley

More Quotes By Robert Southey
  1. Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.( Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

  2. It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

  3. As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

  4. Is but the threshold of eternity.

  5. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

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