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
The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. — 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
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
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert 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
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it… — Alberto Manguel 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
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
