Curiosity Quote by John Aubrey

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

— John Aubrey

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

— Peter Kropotkin

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

— Henry David Thoreau

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them. Lest we forget.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them -…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

— Lord Chesterfield

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Idle hands make fretful minds.

— Shelley Shepard Gray

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

— Benedict of Nursia

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr