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
“Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man” — Karin Slaughter 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
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will… — James Terry White Copy Share Image
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack… — Pliny the Younger 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
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is… — Anthony Trollope 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
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. — J. G. Holland 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
There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety. — Francis M. Lyman 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, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do. — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much… — Sara Sheridan 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
And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my… — Mary Oliver 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
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair. — Thomas Carlyle 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
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont 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
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
