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Idleness Quotes by Plato
- Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One…
- The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
More Idleness Quotes
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never get out of bed before noon. — Charles Bukowski
- Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill
- Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. — Samuel Butler
- Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put… — Lord Chesterfield