Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
“I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Reality has a tendency to reveal itself when man is idle, and so it is because of this that idleness is often… — VD Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Always better to be busy than bored -Idleness is a slow torture; it is an expert thief and your mind is the… — Aidh bin Abdullah al-Qarni Copy Share Image
“If idle hands are the devil’s tools, then a clever teenager with idle hands and a methodical personality is the devil’s munitions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of… — Lew Wallace 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
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The bees sit so slothfully on the flowers, and the sunshine lies so lazily on the ground. A horrible idleness prevails. --… — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Languor is underrated. It is not possible to be immobile in modern society except by dint of constant effort. Holding on tightly… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of Man: He has his lusty Spring,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
