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Quotes About Rest

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
~ Mark Twain
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
~ George Best
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
~ Katharine Hepburn
But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.
~ Mitch Hedberg
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?
~ George Carlin
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.
~ Franz Kafka
Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.
~ John Barrymore
Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
~ Rachel Caine, Black Dawn
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.
~ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave.
~ Jayde Scott
Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.
~ Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!
~ Tanya Masse
She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Is your dog in a coma?" Quinn asked when the dog didn't move a muscle."No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest.
~ Nora Roberts, Blood Brothers
May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)
~ Erin Hunter
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.
~ Ben H. Winters
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
~ Ephrem the Syrian
Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog
~ Li Ching-Yuen
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
~ Ovid