Subject: Activities » Sleep (Page 4)

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house; I never slept alone until after I was married.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

It's like, I hate getting up in the morning, unless it's over and over and over and over again… then I'm good.

American comedian & musician

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people: the good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I certainly do not drink all the time, I have to sleep you know.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

I make no bones about it; I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

For [my husband], getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Excuse me, my leg has gone to sleep; do you mind if I join it?

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator

Follow seven beers with a couple of Scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it's funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own.

(1921 – 2001) Welsh comedian & singer

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.

(1879 – 1949) Irish writer

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

I was having difficulty deciding if I wanted to purchase this bed I was looking at, so the salesman told me… sleep on it.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

He slept more than any other president… Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

I wrote my nightmares out this afternoon so I can get a good night’s sleep tonight.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on.

I daydreamed that I was falling and, just before I hit the ground, I fell asleep.

comedian

If you can’t sleep, count sheep. Don’t count endangered animals. You will run out.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

I hate when my foot falls asleep during the day because I know it will be up all night.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Sometimes in the middle of the night, I think of something that's funny, then I go get a pen and I write it down… or if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian