—  Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright

—  Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer

—  Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress

—  Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer

—  Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998]

Qui dormit, non peccat.

—  Latin proverb

—  Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

     (waking up)

—  George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian

—  Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian

—  Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist

—  Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989]

—  Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian

…Ύπνω και Θανάτω διδυμάοσιν.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad XVI

Ω φίλον ύπνου θέλγητρον, επίκουρον νόσου.

—  Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Orestes

Ύπνε άναξ πάντων τε θεών πάντων τ' ανθρώπων.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad XIV

Ημερήσιοι ύπνοι σώματος όχλησιν ή ψυχής αδημοσύνην ή αργίην ή απαιδευσίην σημαίνουσι.

—  Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Ύπνος, αγρυπνίη, αμφότερα μάλλον του μετρίου γινόμενα, νούσος.

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

—  American Indian proverb ‐ Navajo

—  International proverb

—  from the film Breathless (1960)