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    It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John read more

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.

by John Muir Found in: Rest Quotes,
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Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

by Doctor Who Found in: Rest Quotes,
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Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.

Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.

by Plutarch Found in: Rest Quotes,
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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

by Voltaire Found in: Rest Quotes,
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought read more

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

by Hippocrates Found in: Illness Quotes,
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Without haste, but without rest.

Without haste, but without rest.

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Rest: the sweet sauce of labor

Rest: the sweet sauce of labor

by Plutarch Found in: Rest Quotes,
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Sickness shows us what we are

Sickness shows us what we are

by Latin Proverb Found in: Illness Quotes,
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

by W. C. Fields Found in: Illness Quotes,
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