Disgrace Quote by Hesiod Download Open image “Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.” — Hesiod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disgrace Idleness Procrastination Shame Work
“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace. — Marcel Carne Copy Share Image
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living… — Plato Copy Share Image
