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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 ~

Dame Agatha Christie

~ Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes ~

Miguel De Cervantes

~ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ~

Agatha Christie

~ The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it." ~

John Lubbock

~ "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

~ "Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent." ~

Dr Samuel Johnson

~ "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." ~

Victor Hugo

~ "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

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