“ 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. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves. ”
- Anne Baxter- Copy
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“ Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ”
- Johann G. Seume- Copy
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“ Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ”
- Jeremy Collier- Copy
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“ Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. ”
- G. Macdonald- Copy
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“ Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 1.8K
“ It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ”
- Sherlock Holmes- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 3.8K
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