Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius 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
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do. — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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