Quotes with idleness

Quotes 41 till 49 of 49.

• Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

  Baron William Henry Beveridge
   
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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  Beatrice Webb
  English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

  Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• procrastination
• foolishness
• retirement
• providing
• besetting
• submerged

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