REST

Related Subjects: Bed, Calm, Comfort, Contentment, Patience, Quiet, Retirement, Sabbath, Sleep, Wanderlust

1. There is no rest for a messenger till the message is delivered.—JOSEPH CONRAD, The Rescue
   

2. Absence of occupation is not rest,
   A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.—COWPER, Retirement
   

3. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. Hard work, moreover, not only tends to give us rest for the body, but, what is even more important, peace to the mind.—SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, The Pleasures of Life
   

4. I have the feeling that once I am at home again I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had!—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
   

5. For too much rest itself becomes a pain.—POPE, The Odyssey of Homer
   

6. Too much rest is rust.—SCOTT, The Betrothed
   

7. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

8. So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
   

9. Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

10. It is well to lie fallow for a while.—MARTIN F. TUPPER, Of Recreation