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31 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Idleness
Robert Louis Stevenson
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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Idleness
English Proverb
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Samuel Johnson
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Expect poison from standing water.
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William Blake
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
Idleness
Elizabeth Smart
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He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
Idleness
Proverb
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Idleness
Sherlock Holmes
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Idleness
Robert Burton
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness
Jean Paul
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Cyril Connolly
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
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Johann G. Seume
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
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James Thurber
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Idleness
Jerome K. Jerome
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It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
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Sidney Madwed
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
Idleness
Source Unknown
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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Samuel Johnson
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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
Idleness
Source Unknown
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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Benjamin Franklin
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
Idleness
Proverb
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]
Idleness
Bible
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun