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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON REST
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694, French philosopher, lawyer, mathematician, priest)
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616, British dramatist)
Do not neglect your own needs for someone else's... and recognize your needs so you will know what to do.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice; these are the things that form the education of the world.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
Robert Clive
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper (1731-1800, British poet)
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -- the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -- are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977, American author, critic)
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
S. W. Duffield
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
John Holt (1908-1967, Australian Prime Minister)
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes (1900-1993, American actress)
For too much rest becomes a pain.
Homer (c. 850 -? BC, Greek epic poet)
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor)
Self-interest blinds some people, and makes others see.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913, British statesman, banker, naturalist)
I don't care as much for what I am to others as I do for what I am to myself.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
Stirling Moss (1929-, British motor racing driver)
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
It's no rest to be idle.
Paul Peel
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
A change is as good as a rest.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
A rich man has more relatives than he knows about.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
Rest breeds rust.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
A person never gets tired working for himself.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
A person should stay alive, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury (American doctor, author)
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
Adam Smith (1723-1790, Scottish economist)
A person is led on the path that he truly wants to travel on.
The Talmud (BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish archive of oral tradition)
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.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.
Author Unknown
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Gough Whitlam (1916-, Australian Prime Minister)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
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