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Comfort Proverbs

Sayings about Comfort

God is the comfort of the poor. ~Georgian Proverbs

He who comforts never has a headache. ~ Danish Proverbs

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ~ Saying

Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it. ~Polish Proverbs

Rest makes rusty. ~Dutch Proverbs

Rest breeds rust. ~German Proverbs

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverbs

A good rest is half the job. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. ~ Traditional Proverb

Money and the devil know no rest. ~Serbian Proverbs

He who cannot suffer discomfort, will not be called for important things. ~ Chinese Proverb

The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. ~Indian Proverbs

After lunch, rest; after dinner take a walk. ~Arabian Proverbs

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort. ~ Irish Proverb

Often a branch is broken off the tree by the one who has rested in its shadow. ~ Myanmar Proverb

The soul will only be at rest when it stops hoping. ~ Arabian Proverb

When you are rich you suffer in a more comfortable way. ~French Proverbs

Restless feet may walk into a snake pit. ~Ethiopian Proverbs

A change is as good as a rest. ~English Proverbs

I rest, therefore I rust. ~ German Proverb

Fear and restlessness kill more than do illnesses. ~ French Proverb

The only sword that never rests is the tongue of a woman. ~ Armenian Proverb

Love is like fog — there is no mountain on which it does not rest. ~ Hawaiian Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ~ Chinese Proverb

To relax the mind is to lose it. ~Latin Proverbs

Say no from the start; you will have rest. ~ African Proverb

Even the mightiest eagle comes down to the treetops to rest. ~Ugandan Proverbs

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again. ~ Saying

Who is chasing after another must himself rest. ~Swedish Proverbs

Nobody can rest in his own shadow. ~Hungarian Proverbs

Success and rest don’t sleep together. ~ Russian Proverb

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb

Quotations about Comfort

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. ~ Sidney J. Harris

Every once and a while, go away and take a relaxing break, and then when you come back to your work, your judgment will be better. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. ~ Plutarch

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don’t be too hard on yourself when you don’t do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it. ~ Patty Sheehan

Rest is a fine medicine ~ Thomas Carlyle

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are let on long leases. ~ James H. Aughey

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ~ Michel de Montaigne

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. ~ Samuel Rutherford

Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing. ~ Izey Victoria Odiase

There is no point at which you can say, “Well I am successful now, I might as well relax“. ~ Carrie Fisher

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. ~ John Sullivan Dwight

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. ~ Blaise Pascal

For too much rest becomes a pain. ~ Homer

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. ~ Malcolm Bradbury

To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The stars that have most glory have no rest. ~ Samuel Daniel

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~ Sir John Lubbock

When God says run, don’t relax, just run. It is for a reason! ~ Gift Gugu Mona

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ~ Jean Paul Richter

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. ~ Gail Sheehy

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. ~ Antoine Arnauld

If you rest, you rust. ~ Helen Hayes

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. ~ Schola Salern

Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ~ Benjamin Franklin

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. ~ Stirling Moss

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. ~ Matthew

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ~ William Cowper

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases. ~ Richard Sharp

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. ~ Dylan Thomas

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ~ Ralph Marston

What is without periods of rest will not endure. ~ Ovid

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ~ Hermann Hesse

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~ Anatole France

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. ~ Goethe

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win. Channel your energy. Focus. ~ Carol Lewis

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Comfort and indolence are cronies. ~ Thomas Hood

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. ~ St. Jerome

The word “rest” is not in my vocabulary. ~ Horace Greeley

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ~ William S. Burroughs

Work is man’s most natural form of relaxation. ~ Dagobert D. Runes

Too much rest becomes a pain. ~ Homer

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts. ~ Harriet Martineau

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

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