Repose

Famous quotes containing the word repose:

“I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.”
—Thomas Otway (1652–1685)