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
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their… — Jeremy Collier 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
For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... — George Q Cannon Copy Share Image
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with… — Horace Copy Share Image
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose… — Samuel Johnson 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
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
“Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in… — Khalil Gibran 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 and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.” — Charles Portis 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
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
“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which… — George Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s. — George Carlin 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
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do. — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
