Crime Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be…

— Heather Mac Donald

“The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to…

— Rosalie De Rosset

“Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a collection of…

— Will Ferguson

That man is idle who can do something better.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

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

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

“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

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Robertson Davies

“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