Definition of Sleeping

Sleeping

of Sleep

a. & n. from Sleep.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Mark Twain

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
Dave Barry

I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.
Daphne Zuniga

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn Waugh

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
Henry Rollins

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
Shirley MacLaine

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred von Richthofen

They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
Usher Raymond

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
Hugh Jackman

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Ben Affleck

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
Ben Affleck

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
John Cheever

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Sleeping Translations

sleeping in German is schlafend, schlafenden, schlafend
sleeping in Latin is quietus
sleeping in Spanish is durmiente
sleeping in Swedish is sovande

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