Idleness Quotes - Page 2

• Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

  William Barrett

  Unemployment, Hunger, Jobless

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• Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

  Hasan of Basra

  Death, Wisdom, Islamic

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• The used key is always bright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Keys, Use, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1807). “Maxims and Morals from Dr. Franklin: Being Incitements to Industry, Frugality, and Prudence”, p.23

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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• Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Sweet, Time

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.7, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

  Jewel

  Times Like These, Worry, Useless

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Regret, Apology, Long

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

  Renata Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

  William Graham Sumner

  Attention, Done, Wells

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Curiosity, May, Realizing

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

  Jewel

  Faith, Light, Darkness

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

  Gustav Mahler

  Idle, Remains

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

  Jewel

  Would Be, World, Just One

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

  Charles Tupper

  Power, Bills, Waste

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• Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

  Paul Getty

  Nostalgia, Economy, Speculation

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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

  Time, People, Democracy

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

  Bill Budge

  Sitting, Use, Novices

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• People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

  Jeremy Collier

  Tired, People, Boredom

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strong, Identity, Idle

  "Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quote" by Dr. A.N. P. Ummerkutty, p. 77, August, 2005.

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• Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

  Gustav Klimt

  Art, Late, Idle

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• People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Inspiring, Witty

  "Fictional character: Winnie The Pooh". "Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 2018.

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Family, Work, Roots

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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