The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
