What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? — John Heywood Copy Share Image
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 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
“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
“Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse… — Dean Koontz 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
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“To learn to be without desire you must desire that. Better to do as you please: sing idleness. Floating clouds, and water… — Yuan Mei Copy Share Image
“Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Look at life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, degeneration,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and… — Clarence Robison Copy Share Image
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.” — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
