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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Rather than idleness of people, it is the activeness of people that turns the wheels of the struggle.

V.Prabhakaran

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

"The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness."

Walter Gaston Shotwell

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.

Dr Samuel Johnson

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

Benjamin Franklin

"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."

Oscar Wilde

"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"

Benjamin Franklin

"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."

Benjamin Franklin

ìWork is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgraceî

Hesiod

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

The frivolous work of polished idleness

Sir James Mackintosh

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

Sir Aubrey de Vere

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.

Phaedrus

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

Evil thoughts often come from idleness.

Gaelic Proverb

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

Sherlock Holmes

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

Robertson Davies

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others

Samuel Butler

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

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