Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing,… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Is idleness indeed so black a crime? What are the Busy doing, half their time?” — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
