Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.
— Bible
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
If you rest, you rust.
For too much rest becomes a pain.
— Homer
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.
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
— Ovid
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
It's no rest to be idle.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
— Plutarch
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
— Proverb
Rest breeds rust.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
— Voltaire