Idleness Quotes
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Mahatma Gandhi
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Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
Lord Chesterfield
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer`s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time
John Lubbock
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
Hesiod
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Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
Brigham Young
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Dorothy Parker
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Idleness is the parent of all psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Benjamin Franklin
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Oscar Wilde
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
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Though these Indians dwell among the English and see in what plenty a little industry enables them to live, yet they choose to continue in their stupid idleness and to suffer all the inconveniences of dirt, cold, and want rather than disturb their heads w...
William Byrd
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Andrea Ruedi
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer`s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Alissa Johnson
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Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Al Muchka
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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.
Alonzo Plough
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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don`t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Al Thrasher
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Alex Langwenya
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Alex Langwenya
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Alena Nardinger
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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.
Ali Partovi
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Alexander Cutler
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Adam Levin
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Adam Klein
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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.
Agatha Christie
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Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
Abdulaziz Alzoom
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Adrian Mitchell
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Abner Germanow
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Abdessalem Mansour
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