Repose Quotes
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!
