Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits… — George H. White Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is not certain, so make today count as best as you can, cause there's no excuse in being idleness, is a… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
“Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his… — James Kirke Paulding Copy Share Image
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill… — Hannah More 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
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
“What’s worst: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
