Martha Plimpton Quotes


Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear. Source Unknown Rest 378
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. Jean Paul Rest 295
The end of labor is to gain leisure. Aristotle Rest 207
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Benjamin Franklin Rest 184
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Ovid Rest 154
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. Aristotle Rest 148
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal Rest 112
When you like your work every day is a holiday. Frank Tyger Rest 104
For too much rest becomes a pain. Homer Rest 102
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. H. L. Mencken Rest 100
Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness. C. Neil Strait Rest 99
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. George Bernard Shaw Rest 96
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil! Thomas Carlyle Rest 95
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose; without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerlessness, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair. Blaise Pascal Rest 89
What is without periods of rest will not endure. Ovid Rest 88
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. C. Neil Strait Rest 87
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. Henry Ward Beecher Rest 86
Restlessness is the hallmark of existence. Arthur Schopenhauer Rest 84
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. S. W. Duffield Rest 84
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. Francis Quarles Rest 82
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. Plutarch Rest 82
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. William Cowper Rest 78
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. Marcus Tullius Cicero Rest 75
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. Stirling Moss Rest 75
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. Proverbs Rest 74
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. Benjamin Franklin Rest 73
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. Antoine Arnauld Rest 73
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 Rest 73
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. Blaise Pascal Rest 67
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Gerald Brenan Rest 66
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 Rest 63
Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. Source Unknown Rest 62
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes Rest 60
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue Natalie Clifford Barney Rest 60
Leisure is the exultation of the possible. Martin Buber Rest 60
One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution. Source Unknown Rest 56
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. Plutarch Rest 55
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. Herman Melville Rest 48
No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one. Source Unknown Rest 40
Now you know the rest of the story. Paul Harvey Rest 36
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 Rest 36
Rest breeds rust. Proverbs Rest 31
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. Bible Rest 30
The busier we are the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt Rest 29
A star needs all the rest she can get. Lorna Luft Rest 27
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? William H. Davies Rest 25
He has hard work who has nothing to do. Proverbs Rest 24

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