Day Of Rest Quotes

Day Of Rest Quotes by Geraldine Brooks, Thomas B. Macaulay, Robert Baden-Powell, Ovid, Abbie Hoffman, Maya Angelou and many others.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who

They say the Lord’s Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.
Geraldine Brooks
If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
Robert Baden-Powell
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
Ovid
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Abbie Hoffman
I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.
Maya Angelou
Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.
Hayim Nahman Bialik
The first day of the rest of my life.
Lee Child
The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
David K. Bernard
Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
Walter Benjamin
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
James P. Hoffa
In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
Betty MacDonald