Idleness Quotes
Barrie, Sir James M. on Idleness
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"The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]"
Bible on Idleness
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"Expect poison from standing water."
Blake, William on Idleness
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"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."
Burton, Robert on Idleness
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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."
Connolly, Cyril on Idleness
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"The life of ease is a difficult pursuit."
Cowper, William on Idleness
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
Da Vinci, Leonardo on Idleness
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"That man is idle who can do something better."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Idleness
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
Franklin, Benjamin on Idleness
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"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright."
Franklin, Benjamin on Idleness
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."
Gandhi, Mahatma on Idleness
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"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."
Holmes, Sherlock on Idleness
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"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."
Howe, Nathaniel on Idleness
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"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
Jerome, Jerome K. on Idleness
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"As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy."
Johnson, Samuel on Idleness
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"Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle."
Johnson, Samuel on Idleness
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"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
Kierkegaard, Soren on Idleness
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"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."
Madwed, Sidney on Idleness
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"Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name."
Paul, Jean on Idleness
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"The hardest work of all is to do nothing."
Proverb on Idleness
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"He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers."
Proverb on Idleness
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"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."
Proverb, English on Idleness
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"Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind."
Seume, Johann G. on Idleness
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"Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own."
Smart, Elizabeth on Idleness
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"The insupportable labor of doing nothing."
Steele, Sir Richard on Idleness
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"A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."
Stevenson, Robert Louis on Idleness
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"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."
Thoreau, Henry David on Idleness
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"It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all."
Thurber, James on Idleness
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"Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative."
Unknown, Source on Idleness
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"Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs."
Unknown, Source on Idleness
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"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
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