Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
“I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman. — Caroline A Huling Copy Share Image
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“We know that all things work. Look around you. All things work. Work is the opposite of idleness. The idle man folds… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The bees sit so slothfully on the flowers, and the sunshine lies so lazily on the ground. A horrible idleness prevails. --… — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Of course, the puritanical have opposed idleness since biblical times. Spiritual sloth was the "noonday demon" that distracted a monk from his… — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Languor is underrated. It is not possible to be immobile in modern society except by dint of constant effort. Holding on tightly… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot Copy Share Image
