quotes about Idleness
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
-- Eamon de Valera -
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.
-- Helen Cresswell -
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
-- Hesiod -
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....
-- Hippocrates -
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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
-- Horace -
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
-- James MackintoshSource : James Mackintosh (1872). “On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries”, p.232
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
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I wonder at the idleness of tears.
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1928). “Lizette Woodworth Reese ...”
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He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
-- Louise Wilder -
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
-- Pope Paul VI -
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Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356
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As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
-- Thales -
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
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An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
-- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus -