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
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin… — Herman Melville 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
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
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc.,… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
“[Il ne manque cependant à l'oisiveté du sage qu'un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et être tranquille s'appelât travailler.] There… — Jean de La Bruyère 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
“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
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
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
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting… — H. L. Mencken 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
“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;… — Anne Baxter 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
Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the… — Robert Higgs 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
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
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
“We know that all things work. Look around you. All things work. Work is the opposite of idleness. The idle man folds… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of… — Edward Gibbon 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
![“[Il ne manque cependant à l'oisiveté du sage qu'un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et être tranquille s'appelât travailler.] There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work”.” quote by Jean de La Bruyère](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_idleness_il-ne-manque-cependant-l-oisivet-du-sage_206863.jpg)
