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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. -- Karl Marx
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. -- William Congreve
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! -- Peter Kropotkin
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
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. -- Samuel Johnson
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. -- Edward Young
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. -- George Bernard Shaw
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. -- Andrew Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. -- Persius
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. -- William Cowper
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! -- William Cowper
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. -- Horace Greeley
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. -- Tom Hodgkinson
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing. -- Tom Hodgkinson
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. -- Henry David Thoreau
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile. -- Alexander Smith
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others. -- Thomas Hardy
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. -- Remy de Gourmont
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies! -- Vladimir Lenin
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect. -- Tom Hodgkinson
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. -- John L. Bates
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them. -- Ludwig von Mises
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. -- Nikola Tesla
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven. -- Edward Young
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. -- Slobodan Milosevic
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. -- Pablo Picasso
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic. -- C. S. Lewis
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory. -- Horace Greeley

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