Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
~ Antoine Arnauld

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.
~ William Cowper

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.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
~ S. W. Duffield

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
~ Benjamin Franklin

If you rest, you rust.
~ Helen Hayes

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.
~ Sir John Lubbock

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
~ Stirling Moss

What is without periods of rest will not endure.
~ Ovid

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
~ Blaise Pascal

Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
~ Blaise Pascal

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
~ Jean Paul

It's no rest to be idle.
~ Paul Peel

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
~ Plutarch

How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
~ Proverb

Rest breeds rust.
~ German Proverb

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
~ Francis Quarles

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
~ Dagobert D. Runes