“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We will not lead completely happy lives unless we can be completely engaged in our activity; and quietly content in our idleness.” — Tony Crabbe Copy Share Image
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
“We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
