Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits… — George H. White Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
