Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“The comfort zone is a region where great dreams go to get murdered, buried and forgotten.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress.… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of Man: He has his lusty Spring,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to faint meat, Named idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The bees sit so slothfully on the flowers, and the sunshine lies so lazily on the ground. A horrible idleness prevails. --… — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“idleness is the ideal of genius, and indolence the virtue of the Romantic.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
