Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver 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
“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...” — Alexandre Dumas 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
“If idle hands are the devil’s tools, then a clever teenager with idle hands and a methodical personality is the devil’s munitions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.” — Virginia Woolf 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to faint meat, Named idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.” — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
