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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen (Idleness Quotes)
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books (Idleness Quotes)
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 (Idleness Quotes)
Slavery... dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man (Idleness Quotes)
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually (Idleness Quotes)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes (Idleness Quotes)
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness (Idleness Quotes)
Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, before milk white, now purple with love's wound, and maidens call it love in idleness (Idleness Quotes)
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable (Idleness Quotes)
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 (Idleness Quotes)
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach (Idleness Quotes)
Were't not affection chains thy tender days to the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company to see the wonders of the world abroad than, living dully sluggardized at home, wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness (Idleness Quotes)
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth the freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, conceives by idleness, and nothing teems but hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, losing both beauty and utility (Idleness Quotes)
And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain (Idleness Quotes)
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation (Idleness Quotes)
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done (Idleness Quotes)
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness (Idleness Quotes)
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves (Idleness Quotes)
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper (Idleness Quotes)
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 (Idleness Quotes)
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time (Idleness Quotes)
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness (Idleness Quotes)
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe (Idleness Quotes)
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette (Idleness Quotes)
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain (Idleness Quotes)
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness (Idleness Quotes)
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it (Idleness Quotes)
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long (Idleness Quotes)
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value (Idleness Quotes)
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities (Idleness Quotes)