Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
“What’s worst: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits… — George H. White Copy Share Image
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Activity was always to Inspector Slack’s taste. To rush off in a car, to silence rudely those people who were anxious to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
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
“I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
