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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
-- John Harington
Famous Rest Quotes
- Topic: Rest
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
-- William Cowper - Topic: Rest
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
-- Mark Twain - Topic: Rest
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
-- Benjamin Franklin - Topic: Rest
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
-- Thomas Mann - Topic: Rest
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
-- Francis Quarles - Topic: Rest
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
-- Voltaire - Topic: Rest
Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.
-- Plutarch - Topic: Rest
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- John Muir - Topic: Rest
Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
-- Kin Hubbard