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
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.” — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. — Simone de Beauvoir 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
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and… — Clarence Robison Copy Share Image
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety. — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
