Accustomed Quote by Cardinal Richelieu

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only…

— Abraham Lincoln

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

— William Faulkner

When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber…

— John Smith

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in…

— Benedict of Nursia

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

— George Bernard Shaw

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor…

— Anne Baxter

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is…

— Walter Bagehot

“Malthus declares in plain English that the right to live, a right previously asserted in favour of every man in the world, is nonsense.…

— Friedrich Engels

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes…

— Samuel Smiles