Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Activity was always to Inspector Slack’s taste. To rush off in a car, to silence rudely those people who were anxious to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study. I do not allow time… — Seneca Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Of course, the puritanical have opposed idleness since biblical times. Spiritual sloth was the "noonday demon" that distracted a monk from his… — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Languor is underrated. It is not possible to be immobile in modern society except by dint of constant effort. Holding on tightly… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
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