Brain Quote by Herman Melville

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

— Hesiod

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to…

— Victor Hugo

It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second…

— B. C. Forbes

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

— Ovid

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness,…

— William Shakespeare

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She…

— John Steinbeck

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

— Robertson Davies

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own…

— Iwan Goll

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.…

— William Shakespeare

“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe