Rest

(95 votes)   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
1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(72 votes)   Rest breeds rust.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(72 votes)   Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Plutarch
46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(67 votes)   He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(60 votes)   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

Jean Paul

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(50 votes)   For too much rest becomes a pain.

Homer
c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(45 votes)   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
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(36 votes)   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Proverbs

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(34 votes)   No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.

Source Unknown

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(33 votes)   It's no rest to be idle.

Paul Peel

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(31 votes)   Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Dagobert D. Runes
1902-1982, American Philosophical Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(28 votes)   Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(28 votes)   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

S. W. Duffield

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website