Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Is idleness indeed so black a crime? What are the Busy doing, half their time?” — William Allingham Copy Share Image
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.” — George Borrow Copy Share Image
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato Copy Share Image
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Always better to be busy than bored -Idleness is a slow torture; it is an expert thief and your mind is the… — Aidh bin Abdullah al-Qarni Copy Share Image
“Reality has a tendency to reveal itself when man is idle, and so it is because of this that idleness is often… — VD Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“It does not pay a man to exist until the age of Methuselah by making his days indolent and useless. The more… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The problem, Paulinus, is not that we have a short life, but that we waste time. Life is long and there is… — Seneca the elder Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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