Accused Quote by George H. White

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

— Mason Cooley

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....

— Hippocrates

“Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness”

— Sunday Adelaja

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…

— Tom Hodgkinson

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

— Stephen Covey

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

— Hesiod

Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the…

— Whiting Williams

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have…

— Nikola Tesla

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of…

— Edmund Burke

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they…

— Simon Calder

“Sadly, in our technological, impersonal, and avaricious consumer society, people merely hold on to jobs. They put in their time, leave at the five…

— Robert Dykstra