"For too much rest itself becomes a pain."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Homer, The Odyssey, Book XV, line 429. Pope's translation.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rest
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Rest
29 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Rest β
Related Quotes
"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."
"Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."
"O! quid solutis est beatius curis! Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum Desideraβ¦"
"In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eβ¦"
"Silken rest Tie all thy cares up!"
"The result would inevitably be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey exisβ¦"
"Rest is sweet after strife."
"Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."
"Who, with a body filled and vacant mind, Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread."
"Rest is not quitting the busy career; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere."