Rest Quotes

The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

Blaise Pascal

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Blaise Pascal

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

William Butler Yeats

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Benjamin Franklin

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?

Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.

Ronald Dunn

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

Natalie Clifford Barney

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are

Raoul Vaneigem

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

Albert Camus

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Blaise Pascal

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

Source Unknown

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

Source Unknown

He has hard work who has nothing to do.

Proverb

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

William Cowper