Idlers Quotes

52 quotes by 44 authors

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more.… — John L. Bates
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. — Washington Irving
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has… — Remy de Gourmont
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal… — Dominique Fernandez
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have… — Jean-Paul Marat
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having… — Meher Baba
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. — Slobodan MiloseviÄ‡
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like… — Plato
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. — Horace Greeley
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! — Peter Kropotkin
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers,… — William Butler Yeats
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… — Hermann Hesse
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And they die an equal death â€” the idler and the man of mighty deeds. — Homer
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious… — C.S. Lewis
A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...… — William Butler Yeats
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. — Samuel Johnson
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.… — Pablo Picasso
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper

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