A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.” — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.” — Kevin Jackson Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enjoy idlingthoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There isno fun in doing nothing whenyou have… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely… — Edward Rutledge Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
