Quotes About Rest

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

Resting is the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually. It's very dangerous to rest all of a sudden.

Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

No pillow so soft as God's promise.

God rest you merry, gentlemen,Let nothing you dismay;Remember Christ our Savior,Was born on Christmas Day.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men!

He giveth his beloved sleep.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

"I'll rest," said he, "but thou shalt walk";So doth this wandering JewFrom place to place, but cannot restFor seeing countries new.

Sit tibi terra levis [May the earth rest lightly on you].

Requiescat in pace [May he rest in peace; May she rest in peace].

Vade in pace [Go in peace].

Come, let's to bed,Says Sleepyhead;Tarry awhile, says Slow;Put on the pot,Says Greedy-gut,We'll sup before we go.

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.

To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy—a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence.

The only way to fall asleep is to stop trying to fall asleep. Sleep is a horizon: the harder you row toward it, the faster it recedes.