“ The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ”
- Sir Heneage Ogilvie- Copy
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“ If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history. ”
- Larry Bird- Copy
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“ The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. ”
- George Henry Lewes- Copy
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“ His thoughts were low;To vice industrious; but to nobler deedsTimorous and slothful. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government, That knows no interest of state, But such as serves a present strait. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ”
- Lech Walesa- Copy
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“ The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
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“ Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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“ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
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“ 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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“ 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. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ”
- Charlie McCarthy- Copy
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