“Servant of God, well done! Rest from thy loved employ; The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy.”— James Montgomery
“I believe in working hard and playing hard. But I also believe in resting hard.”— Victoria Principal
“Wake all the dead! what ho! what ho! How soundly they sleep whose pillows lie low.”— William Davenant
“Our object is to make our homes places of rest and peace, not of display and ostentation.”— Gustav Stickley
“I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.”— Algernon Charles Swinburne
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”— Kenneth Grahame
“Let us learn to be lazy; for those who are never lazy are often fussy, and always dull.”— Sir James Paget
“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.”— Edmund Spenser