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Rest Proverbs - page 5
When the sun rises, I go to work. When the sun goes down I take my rest, I dig the well from which I drink, I farm the soil which yields my food, I share creation, Kings can do no more.
Traditional Proverb
Rest comes only after hardship.
African Proverb
The rest is silence. (William Shakespeare, Hamlet)
English Proverb
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.
Greek Proverb
Let the traveller fainting on his journey take rest under a tree which contains both fruit and shade.
Hindi Proverb
The head and feet keep warm; the rest will take no harm.
French Proverb
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a slumbering evil rest where it is.].
Latin Proverb
The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it. [Stolid immobility or masterly inactivity.].
Latin Proverb
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