Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
“We will not lead completely happy lives unless we can be completely engaged in our activity; and quietly content in our idleness.” — Tony Crabbe Copy Share Image
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“To learn to be without desire you must desire that. Better to do as you please: sing idleness. Floating clouds, and water… — Yuan Mei Copy Share Image
“I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness,… — Primo Levi 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
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief… — Bertrand Russell 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
“There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at… — Jeremy Taylor 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
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with… — Iwan Goll 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
Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.” — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.” — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
