Quotes with idleness

  • A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
  • It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
  • War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
  • Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
  • 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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  • Sherlock Holmes I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Idleness is the parent of psychology.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • William Wordsworth A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 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
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Samuel Johnson Grief is a species of idleness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Emily Dickinson His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Agatha Christie 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.
    An Autobiography (1977) part III, sect. 2
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Hannah More 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
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anne Baxter 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
    American actress (1923 - 1985)
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  • Robert Burton Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Jeremy Collier 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
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Jean Paul Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Cyril Connolly Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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