idleness quotes

• I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [remember/feeling/idleness]
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Robert Burton) [idleness]
• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. (Samuel Butler) [men/sin/idleness]
• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. (Thomas Carlyle) [idleness]
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. (Miguel De Cervantes) [mother/fortune/idleness]
• Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. (Benjamin Franklin) [idleness]
• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. (Benjamin Franklin) [idleness/pride]
• We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. (Benjamin Franklin) [idleness/pride]
• Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. (Mahatma Gandhi) [mind/idleness]
• Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. (Samuel Johnson) [men/nature/idleness/vanity]
• 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) [care/idleness]
• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [time/idleness]
• Idleness is the parent of psychology. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [idleness/psychology]
• Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. ( Ovid) [temptation/idleness]
• 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) [idleness]
• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. (Oscar Wilde) [condition/perfection/idleness/perfection]
• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. (Oscar Wilde) [art/idleness/teach]
• Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Virginia Woolf) [idleness/truth/top]
• A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. (William Wordsworth) [day/idleness]

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