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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Samuel Johnson

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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Karl Kraus

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Expect poison from standing water.

William Blake

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Søren Kierkegaard

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He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.

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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.

Hannah More

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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Cyril Connolly

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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

James Thurber

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

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It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Sidney Madwed

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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

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Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Samuel Johnson

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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.

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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire

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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Benjamin Franklin

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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That man is idle who can do something better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. -- Matthew 9:37

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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Richard Steele

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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

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There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

H. L. Mencken

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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

J. M. Barrie

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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Expect poison from standing water.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

That man is idle who can do something better.

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. -- Matthew 9:37

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.