77 Quotations with Idleness.
- 1. Agatha Christie: I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, a ...
- 2. Lord Chesterfield: Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idl ...
- 3. Mrs. Sigourney: In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of ...
- 4. Anne Baxter: Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home fo ...
- 5. Thomas Carlyle: In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
- 6. Jeremy Collier: Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who h ...
- 7. Francis Quarles: Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may fin ...
- 8. Earl of Chesterfield: Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idl ...
- 9. Johnson: One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, a ...
- 10. J. W. Alexander: There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a p ...
- 11. G. Macdonald: Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacre ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upo ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and ...
- 14. Samuel Johnson: Grief is a species of idleness.
- 15. Hippocrates: Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
- 16. Floyd Dell: Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
- 17. Soren Kierkegaard: Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- 18. Lydia Sigourney: In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or ...
- 19. George MacDonald: Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
- 20. Virginia Woolf: It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes t ...
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