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Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.

– Andrew Schneider

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo

– American Indian Proverb

A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet, then open a door and there's the monster, sound asleep.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

– Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

– Baltasar Gracian

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

– Anonymous

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

– William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

– Heinrich Heine

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease If the mind retains its absoluteness, The ten thousand things are of one suchness.

– Seng-T'San

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

– Mark Twain

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere)

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

– Sterne

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

– Wilson Mizner

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

– Bharavi

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

– Chinese Proverb

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

– Dejan Stojanovic

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Work 'em hard, play 'em hard, feed 'em up to the nines and send 'em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are on the pillow.

– Frank L. Boyden

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