Idleness Quotes
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"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble."
Agatha Christie
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English Writer
Idleness
"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible"
Mahatma Gandhi
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Idleness
"Idleness is the mother of all vices."
Russian Proverb
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Idleness
Work
"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."
George Bernard Shaw
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Idleness
"A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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Idleness
"No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today"
Lord Chesterfield
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Idleness
"Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind."
Johann Seume
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Idleness
"He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers."
Proverb Proverbs
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Idleness
"Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless."
Ovid Ovid
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Idleness
Temptation
"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
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Idleness
"Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind."
Henry Ford
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Idleness
"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."
English Proverbs
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English Proverbs
Idleness
"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
Benjamin Jowett
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English Theologian
Idleness
"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone."
Author Unknown
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Idleness
"Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative."
Author Unknown
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Idleness
"Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals."
Voltaire
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Idleness
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
Leonardo da Vinci
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Action
Idleness
"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness"
George Borrow
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Idleness
"He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?"
Oscar Wilde
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Idleness
Riches
"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
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Idleness
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
Thomas Carlyle
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Idleness
Scottish Philosopher
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