An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. — David Mitchell 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
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to… — Dominique Fernandez Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The… — Plato Copy Share Image
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
“It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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