The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The comfort zone is a region where great dreams go to get murdered, buried and forgotten.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely… — Edward Rutledge Copy Share Image
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enjoy idlingthoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There isno fun in doing nothing whenyou have… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov 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
“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
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper 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
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
