Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon… — William A. Alcott Copy Share Image
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing,… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who… — J. Reuben Clark 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
“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
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
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
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and… — Clarence Robison Copy Share Image
“Look at life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, degeneration,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours… — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
