Idleness Quote by Robert Burton Download Open image “Idleness is an appendix to nobility.” — Robert Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idleness Nobility Procrastination
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“as{268} Petrarch observes, we change language, habits, laws, customs, manners, but not vices, not diseases, not the symptoms of folly and madness, they are… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
