Idleness Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “How sweet and sacred idleness is!” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idleness Inspirational Sacred Sweet
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“idleness is the ideal of genius, and indolence the virtue of the Romantic.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor 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
