Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than… — Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“Don't waste the mornings of your life on idleness and laziness, by every means possible wrestle with your passions, your ideas and… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely… — Edward Rutledge Copy Share Image
“appears that our first instinct is for idleness, but when given an excuse to be busy (even a meaningless one), we're liable… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ten days passed, ten days of total idleness. The novelty of our surroundings wore off and the battalion began to suffer from… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
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