We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Is idleness indeed so black a crime? What are the Busy doing, half their time?” — William Allingham 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
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of… — Norman Mailer 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
“I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration… — Artemus Ward Copy Share Image
Do not let idleness set in, not even for a second, as seconds will lead to minute, minutes will lead to hour,… — Nghi Lam 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 and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
