The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs by Charles Clay Doyle

Author:Charles Clay Doyle [Doyle, Charles Clay; Mieder, Wolfgang; Shapiro, Fred R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Proverbs, English. / Proverbs, American.
ISBN: 9780300136029
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

Life (Time, etc.) is too short (too precious) to waste it sleeping (Don’t waste your life sleeping).

1944 Warren Miller, “The Animals’ Fair,” Harper’s Bazaar 78, no. 2 (Feb.) 145: “Richard started to say…that when you got old you realized there was not much of your life left to you and you didn’t want to waste it sleeping.” 1959 Milwaukee Journal 28 Nov.: “…Christmas Eve is a pretty splendid occasion and it seems a pity to waste it sleeping.” 1966 Jan Peerce, “A Week-end in Suburbia,” Music Journal 24, no. 4 (Apr.) 25: “I have always been an early riser, and Sundays are no exception. We have so little time to do everything we want, so why waste it sleeping?” 1977 Frank Brady, Onassis: An Extravagant Life (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall) 42: “His [Aristotle Onassis’s] avoidance of sleep was a studied and tutored habit. ‘Why waste your life sleeping?’ he once asked. ‘I don’t have time for it!’” 1985 Diane Hoh, Betrayed (New York: Scholastic) 95: “‘Look, Pres,’ she’d said angrily when he’d just casually mentioned going home to get some sleep, ‘life is too short to waste it sleeping.’”

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