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Idleness Quotes

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Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.
Robert Bellarmine

Authors on Idleness Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Hesiod Ovid Charles Baudelaire Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Nietzsche Francois de La Rochefoucauld Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tim Ferriss Walter Savage Landor Helen Cresswell Eliphas Levi Lizette Woodworth Reese John Quincy Adams Robert Bellarmine William Faulkner Gustav Mahler Benedict of Nursia Magnus Stenbock Robert Pollok Victor Hugo George Ticknor Benjamin Franklin Eamon de Valera Hippocrates Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Thales James Russell Lowell Lawrence Durrell Pope Paul VI Homer Russell Lynes Charles Spurgeon
2.
Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
Benedict of Nursia

3.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

4.
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera

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Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
Eliphas Levi

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As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
Thales

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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates

8.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams

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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Mahatma Gandhi

10.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle

11.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Homer

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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler

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Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
J. G. Holland

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We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod

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Of all our faults,
the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

17.
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor

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Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace

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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
William Faulkner

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo

21.
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
Robert Pollok

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Friedrich Nietzsche

23.
Idleness only leads to bad deeds
Magnus Stenbock

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An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

25.
Idleness is paralysis.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

26.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

27.
Idleness is the key of beggary.
Charles Spurgeon

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Communism is the flower of idleness.
George Ticknor

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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Charles Baudelaire

30.
Idleness is the great plague of India.
Mahatma Gandhi

31.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
Tim Ferriss

32.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
Lawrence Durrell

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I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Lizette Woodworth Reese

34.
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
Benjamin Franklin

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Idleness induces caprice.
James Russell Lowell

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In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Hesiod

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Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Pope Paul VI

38.
A Dandy does nothing.
Charles Baudelaire

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I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.
Helen Cresswell

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Idleness ruins the constitution
Ovid

41.
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
Russell Lynes

42.
Writing is busy idleness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Ovid