“ 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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“ They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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
- 2.6K
“ The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- George Allen- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the "blessing" of idleness and won for us the "curse" of labor. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.3K
“ For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. ”
- Aubrey Thomas de Vere- Copy
- 387
“ What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. ”
- Os Guinness- Copy
- 2.1K
“ My brother-in-law... I wish he would learn a trade, so we'd know what kind of work he was out of. ”
- Henny Youngman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ”
- Mary Wilson Little- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. ”
- Jimmy Carter- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Even the wise are confused about what is action and what is inaction. Therefore, I shall clearly explain what is action, knowing that one shall be liberated from the evil (of birth and death). ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
- 3.3K
“ This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 260
“ The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 2.1K
“ War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh. ”
- Sir James Mackintosh- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.2K
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