“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” — Anthony Burgess 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
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte 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 clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man” — Karin Slaughter 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
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As we are whiling away days of idleness, time may flow rashly through the screen of our thoughts and veil the relevance… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I am glad to hear it. A… — Oscar Wilde 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
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations,… — Samuel Smiles 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
“Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.” — St. Augustine of Hippo 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
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. — Frances Sargent Osgood 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 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
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
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
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of… — Samuel Johnson 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
The worst job on earth is idleness lazy people find it difficult to survive with their habit — LilTeny 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
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,… — Anonymous 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
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
