Quotes About Rest

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands — and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

We do not rest because now I know what we are running from, and it looks a lot like death.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

[Sunday] should be different from another day. People may walk, but not throw stones at birds. There may be relaxation, but there should be no levity.

And so to bed.

But I could not stay with him myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again.

Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend

When they were tired Night rained her thick dark sleep upon their eyes.

Kuu laskenut ja Seulaset On keskiyö, minun aikani on ohi Nukun yksin

When it came to napping, Winston Churchill insisted that there should be "no halfway measures." "Take off your clothes," he said, "and get into bed.

Great Spirit who gave us the darkness in which to rest. In that darkness we send our words to you.' 

Early to bed, early to rise, leaves me cranky with rings under my eyes.

School always makes me want to hibernate. - Emma

At Midnight Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won. Even love that I built my spirit's house for, Comes like a brooding and a baffled guest, And music and men's praise and even laughter Are not so good as rest.

Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won. Even love that I built my spirit's house for, Comes like a brooding and a baffled guest, And music and men's praise and even laughter Are not so good as rest.