Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.” — George Borrow Copy Share Image
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper 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
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“appears that our first instinct is for idleness, but when given an excuse to be busy (even a meaningless one), we're liable… — David DiSalvo 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
“It does not pay a man to exist until the age of Methuselah by making his days indolent and useless. The more… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
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