Idleness Quotes
269 quotes by 187 authors
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Never get out of bed before noon.
— Charles Bukowski
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself…
— Agatha Christie
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It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
— William J. Clinton
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which…
— Matthieu Ricard
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train…
— Lydia Sigourney
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Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.
— Ovid
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
— Hannah More
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Idleness induces caprice.
— James Russell Lowell
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
Who Wrote These Idleness Quotes
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