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Idleness is the parent of psychology. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. -- Franz Kafka
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. -- Ezra Cornell
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. -- Benjamin Franklin
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. -- William Wordsworth
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. -- Henry Ford
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. -- Floyd Dell
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. -- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. -- Johann G. Seume
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. -- Cyril Connolly
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. -- Agatha Christie
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves -- Anne Baxter
Idleness is paralysis. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Idleness induces caprice. -- James Russell Lowell
Trouble Springs From Idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness ruins the constitution -- Ovid
Idleness breeds our better virtues. -- William Faulkner
Idleness is the key of beggary. -- Charles Spurgeon
Idleness only leads to bad deeds -- Magnus Stenbock
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. -- Robert Burton
Idleness is an enemy of the soul. -- Benedict of Nursia
Idleness is the enemy of the soul. -- Anselm of Canterbury
Idleness is the great plague of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. -- Albert Camus
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. -- Victor Hugo
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. -- John Quincy Adams
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. -- J. G. Holland
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues -- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is seductive.Just relax and do nothing, it says. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. -- Frederick Herzberg
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron -- Ezra Cornell
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. -- Thomas Carlyle
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian. -- Pope Paul VI
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... -- Hippocrates
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. -- Victor Hugo
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. -- Dorothy Parker
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. -- Mason Cooley
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. -- Johann G. Seume
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. -- Cesare Pavese
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. -- Thomas Jefferson
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. -- William Beveridge
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! -- Emily Dickinson
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ... -- Louise Imogen Guiney
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. -- Bhartrhari
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. -- Samora Machel
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. -- Hannah More
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
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot. -- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading. -- Benedict of Nursia
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. -- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty. -- Maria Edgeworth
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. -- Anne Baxter
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron. -- Samuel Smiles
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured. -- Carlo Collodi
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly. -- Benjamin Franklin
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. -- Thomas Traherne
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. -- Samuel Johnson
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness". -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. -- Karen Allen
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery. -- Victor Hugo
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.... -- Soren Kierkegaard
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train. -- Thomas Hartwell Horne
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man. -- Francis Quarles
Busy idleness urges us on. -- Horace
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. -- Eamon de Valera
I live an idle burden to the ground. -- Homer
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. -- William Barrett
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. -- Hesiod
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. -- Oscar Wilde
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. -- George MacDonald
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. -- Julie Burchill
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. -- Virginia Woolf
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. -- Virginia Woolf
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. -- William Cowper
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. -- Ambrose Bierce
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. -- William J. Clinton
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. -- Anton Chekhov
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. -- Herman Melville
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. -- George H. White
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. -- Robert South
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -- Lord Chesterfield
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -- Lord Chesterfield
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. -- Samuel Johnson
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. -- John Ruskin
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. -- John Lubbock
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. -- Brenda Ueland
Writing is busy idleness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin. -- Edmund Spenser
Grief is a species of idleness. -- Samuel Johnson
How sweet and sacred idleness is! -- Walter Savage Landor
Communism is the flower of idleness. -- George Ticknor
The frivolous work of polished idleness. -- James Mackintosh
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness. -- Winston Churchill
I wonder at the idleness of tears. -- Lizette Woodworth Reese
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair. -- Thomas Carlyle
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will... -- Eliphas Levi
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness. -- Thales

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