Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. — Dorothy Parker 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
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
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
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
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in… — J. B. Priestley 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
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his… — James Kirke Paulding Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
... 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
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
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
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
