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Idleness Quotes
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death, but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass. (Quote by - Hester Lynch Thrale)
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. (Quote by - Anne Baxter)
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
Busy idleness urges us on. (Quote by - Horace)
The hardest work is to go idle. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
That man is idle who can do something better. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. (Quote by - George H. White)