"Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night." - George Allen

"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming, like the passengers in his car." - Handey, Jack [Saturday Night Live persona] in 'Deep Thoughts'

"Death the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening." - Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)