Repose

Famous quotes containing the word repose:

“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

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