quotes about Idlers
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
-- Alexander Smith -
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.
-- Ebenezer Elliott -
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.
-- H. P. LovecraftSource : Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,
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There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz -
And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
-- Homer -
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
-- Horace Greeley -
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
-- Karl Marx -
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
-- Peter KropotkinSource : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.129, Courier Corporation
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All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
-- William Congreve