Quotes about Rest

“Rest breeds rust.”

“If you rest, you rust.”

“It's no rest to be idle.”

“For too much rest becomes a pain.”

“Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.”

“Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.”

“What is without periods of rest will not endure.”

“Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.”

“Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.”

“Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.”

“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.”

“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”

“Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”

“It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.”

“Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.”

“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.”

“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.”