The worst job on earth is idleness lazy people find it difficult to survive with their habit — LilTeny Copy Share Image
“Every little girl ‘did her knitting stint’ each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.” — Anne Macdonald Copy Share Image
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You… — Al-Hujwiri Copy Share Image
“Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief. — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.” — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
