“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman. — Caroline A Huling Copy Share Image
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.” — Kevin Jackson Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler 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
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You… — Al-Hujwiri Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
The worst job on earth is idleness lazy people find it difficult to survive with their habit — LilTeny Copy Share Image
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Every little girl ‘did her knitting stint’ each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.” — Anne 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
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert — Hannah More Copy Share Image
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi 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
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin 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
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
