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
“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
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. — Samuel Johnson 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
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. — Dorothy Parker 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
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
“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned… — Émile Zola 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
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;… — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
“Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
