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Idleness Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
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
- I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie
- It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. — William J. Clinton
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish… — Samuel Johnson