An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“If idle hands are the devil’s tools, then a clever teenager with idle hands and a methodical personality is the devil’s munitions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.” — Kevin Jackson Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enjoy idlingthoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There isno fun in doing nothing whenyou have… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
