<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sleep - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56642]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56635]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!  To Mary Queen the praise be given! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!  To Mary Queen the praise be given!   She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven    That slid into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,   And a wide realm of wild reality,    And dreams in their development have breath,     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay my head   On my grave, as now my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore,  From his pretty eyes have sunken   Pleasures to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56621]]></link><description><![CDATA[How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore,  From his pretty eyes have sunken   Pleasures to make room for more--    Sleeping near the withered nosegay which he pulled the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,   Now tell me if that any is.    For gift or grace, surpassing this--     "He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;   I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,    Until I find a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my vain self, and vain things which have power   Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.    And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait;  Nor forget the twain who found you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait;  Nor forget the twain who found you   Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56607]]></link><description><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,   Sinks down to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56608]]></link><description><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see the charmed door of dreams   Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item></channel></rss>