“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

“Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.”

“The immortality of the soul is that there is no death without life and there is no life after death. Life goes on.”

“After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.”

“O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?”

“Really life is a short trip. We are all passengers, there is no rest even after death.”

“I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.”

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

“876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after.”

“After the week of stormy weather, she set sail under sunny skies, on a glassy sea with a big swell running.”