"Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be…" — Jerome K. Jerome
"Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen."
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108 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome has 108 quotes on this site.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my…
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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they…
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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we…
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Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
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Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be…
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a…
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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state,…
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make…
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings…
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked…
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More Idleness Quotes
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one of 269 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Never get out of bed before noon.
— Charles Bukowski
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is…
— Anton Chekhov
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from…
— Agatha Christie
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It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
— William J. Clinton
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers…
— Samuel Johnson
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