Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
JOHANN G. SEUME There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience w...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON Idleness is an appendix to nobility
ROBERT BURTON Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its a...
LEW WALLACE Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
ALBERT CAMUS It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do ...
JEREMY COLLIER Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do ar...
JEREMY COLLIER It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, i...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Idleness is the parent of psychology.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelte...
BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelte...
ROBERT SOUTH Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
GEORGE MACDONALD Idleness is the parent of all psychology
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
THOMAS CARLYLE Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
VICTOR HUGO Idleness is the mother of all vices.
RUSSIAN PROVERB In idleness there is a perpetual despair
THOMAS CARLYLE Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
HESIOD It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
EZRA CORNELL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they sh...
ROBERT SOUTH Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and f...
ANNE BAXTER Idleness leads to insolence.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD Action does not guarantee success. Idleness guarantees failure.
TERENCE T. GORSKI Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognize...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognise...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Thoughts without their fulfillment — is the beginning of idleness.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness induces caprice.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommend...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
SIDNEY MADWED He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
GAELIC PROVERB Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the c...
GEORGE MACDONALD A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
PHAEDRUS You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golde...
SIR JAMES M. BARRIE It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor...
SIR AUBREY DE VERE Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
[Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they l...
JAMES THOMSON (1) A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conce...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
[Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is
corrupted unless it moves.
[Lat., Cern...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
[Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to
learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth,
grows torpid.
[Lat., Blandoque ven...
CAIUS SILIUS ITALICUS I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idlenes...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I live an idle burden to the ground.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
JOHN HEYWOOD Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that b...
WILLIAM COWPER Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
HOSEA BALLOU Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant,
remains fruitless.
HOSEA BALLOU Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never get out of bed before noon
CHARLES BUKOWSKI …for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the D...
GEORGE Q. CANNON I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR. That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
[Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
MAHATMA GANDHI Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
JEROME K. JEROME Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
MEGIDDO MESSAGE I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
SHERLOCK HOLMES Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPER Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an ins...
AL-HUJWIRI Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
FARLEY MOWAT Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.
OSCAR BIMPONG Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
OVID Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Idleness is a Chronic Physiological Condition of Lack of Engagement.
AMICABLE SODA Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
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CARLISLE FLOYD It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
CARLISLE FLOYD Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out...
CARLISLE FLOYD The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has...
CARLISLE FLOYD Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p...
CARLISLE FLOYD We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce...
CARLISLE FLOYD People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in...
CARLISLE FLOYD Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv...
CARLISLE FLOYD If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking f...
KEITH FLOYD