The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 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
“Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You… — Al-Hujwiri Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“We know that all things work. Look around you. All things work. Work is the opposite of idleness. The idle man folds… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Every little girl ‘did her knitting stint’ each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.” — Anne Macdonald Copy Share Image
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst job on earth is idleness lazy people find it difficult to survive with their habit — LilTeny Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert — Hannah More Copy Share Image
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... — George Q Cannon Copy Share Image
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
