Best Idlers Quotes
52 Idlers quotes by 43 unique authors
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No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let…
— William Congreve
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
— Tom Hodgkinson
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I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!
— Tom Hodgkinson
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In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
— Karl Marx
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
— Henry Miller
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A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and…
— Thomas Hardy
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An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
— David Mitchell
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted…
— Nikola Tesla
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For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb…
— Charles Baudelaire
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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out…
— Ebenezer Elliott
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections,…
— Voltaire
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
— Edward Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
— Andrew Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
— Unknown Author
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Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted…
— John Keats
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