There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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.
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
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.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
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