Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon… — William A. Alcott Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is not certain, so make today count as best as you can, cause there's no excuse in being idleness, is a… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
“I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study. I do not allow time… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, spiritual advisors always warned against a state that had a variety of names but was difficult to describe:… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Pride combined with wealth leads to idleness because you falsely feel that God just wants you to have fun; if unchecked, this… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
