Famous quotes containing the word rest:
“They were more chaste in their ears than in the rest of their bodies.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
“We must remember the past, define the future, and challenge the present—wherever and however we can. It will take the rest of our lives even to begin. But then, what else have we to do?”
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, Introduction (1980)
“The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm’s length.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)