Affluence Quote by William Wilberforce

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then,…

— Carlo Collodi

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in…

— Leo Tolstoy

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty…

— Samuel Johnson

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

— George Whitefield

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

— Robert Breault

“It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed. In 1993, I went…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with…

— Samuel Johnson

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

Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the…

— Sinclair Lewis

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the…

— J. G. Holland