Idleness

(197 votes)   A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(124 votes)   Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)   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.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(114 votes)   An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(100 votes)   Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor

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(96 votes)   Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(81 votes)   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.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(75 votes)   To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(70 votes)   Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

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(70 votes)   It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright

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(68 votes)   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.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(63 votes)   Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

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(62 votes)   Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(58 votes)   Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume
1763-1810, German Theologist

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(57 votes)   Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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