65 Dozing Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous dozing quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational dozing quotes. Hopefully, these dozing quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your dozing knowledge!
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Famous Dozing Quotes
The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids. — John Milton
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. — Champfleury
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. — Matthew Walker
Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces. — Matthew Walker
Sleep is the best meditation. — Dalai Lama
The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep. — Dan Gable
Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon. — Troye Sivan
Falling asleep is like landing a plane. — Matthew Walker
The sleepy like to make excuses. — Benedict of Nursia
It is hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. — Filipino Proverbs
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge. — Buddha
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. — Tupac Shakur
I'll tell you what's better than watching the sunrise... Sleeping through it. — Daniel Tosh
Short Dozing Quotes
- Great acts are made up of small deeds. — Lao Tzu
- An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. — Lao Tzu
- An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. — Lao Tzu
- He who talks more is sooner exhausted. — Lao Tzu
- Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off. — KRS-One
- You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second. — Young Chop
- There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. — Robert Smith
- Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes. — Mason Cooley
- When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed. — Christina Aguilera
- Be the chief but never the lord. — Lao Tzu
People Writing About Dozing
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Lao Tzu |
1418 | 11725 |
 Matthew Walker |
92 | 1 |
 John Milton |
780 | 4024 |
 Champfleury |
9 | 71 |
 Ludwig Wittgenstein |
344 | 2373 |
 Dalai Lama |
1464 | 21491 |
More Dozing Quotes
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises. — Taiichi Ohno
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God. — Charles Spurgeon
The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing! — Sogyal Rinpoche
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz. — Bob Phillips
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it! — Charles Simic
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king. — Billy Wilder
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. — Suzanne Collins
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. — William Wycherley
I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes! — Mackenzie Crook
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. — Brian Eno
You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement — John Walter Bratton
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. — Padma Lakshmi
The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it. — Brian Tracy
Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze. — Paul Scarron
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. — David Mccord
What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion. — Zhang Jie
I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks. — Abbas Kiarostami
Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing. — Michel Ocelot
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis) — John Piper
Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying. — Lord Chesterfield
People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and tells how God has revolutionized his or her life, no one dozes off. When someone is healed or released from a life-controlling bondage, everyone takes notice. — Jim Cymbala
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. — Daniel Defoe
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living. — Marcus Aurelius
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off. — Woody Allen
During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.' — Mark Hertsgaard
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence. — Arnold Bennett
Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said. — Erich Segal
Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams. — Gustave Flaubert
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