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Quotes about idleness
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Expect poison from standing water. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. (Barrie Sir James M.)
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. (Barrie Sir James M.)
That man is idle who can do something better. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. (Barrie Sir James M.)
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. (Barrie Sir James M.)
The way to be nothing is to do nothing. (Barrie Sir James M.)
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. (Barrie Sir James M.)
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Barrie Sir James M.)
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. (Barrie Sir James M.)
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. (Barrie Sir James M.)
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. (Barrie Sir James M.)
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. (Barrie Sir James M.)
The hardest work of all is to do nothing. (Barrie Sir James M.)
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