Rest Quotes

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

Henri Lefebvre

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 DaVinci

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Plutarch

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

S. W. Duffield

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

Proverb

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith

How pleasant is Saturday night when I've tried all the week to be good, and not spoke a word that was bad, and obliged everyone that I could.

Nancy Sproat

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods

Thorstein Veblen

If you rest, you rust.

Helen Hayes

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Steven Wright

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

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

Antoine Arnauld

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

George Bernard Shaw

Infinite movement, the point which fills everything, the moment of rest; infinite without quantity, indivisible and infinite.

Blaise Pascal

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

William H. Davies

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

W. H. Auden

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Blaise Pascal

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

Orson Scott Card