rest quotes

Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy, Until I labour, I in labour lie. The foe oft-times having the foe in sight, Is tired with standing though he never fight. Off with that girdle, like heaven's zone glistering, But a far fairer world encompassing. Unpin that spangled breastplate which you wear, That busy fools may be stopped there. Unlace yourself, for that harmonious chime Tells me from you that now 'tis your bed time.

-John Donne
c.1595  Elegies, no.19,'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

Always to be best, and to be distinguished above the rest.

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC  Motto of the hero Glaucus. Iliad, bk.6, l.208 (translated by Martin Hammond.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, no.129 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early.One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, pt.2, ch.3.