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
“Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie 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
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 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
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that… — Stanislaw Lem 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
“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
