Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief. — Francis M. Lyman 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
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at… — Benedict of Nursia 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
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
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal 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
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
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. — Charles Baudelaire 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
“[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.” — George Borrow 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
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
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 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
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. — Samora Machel 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
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
