Idleness famous quotes

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
-- Albert Camus

#Mediocrity #Mediocre #Idleness

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

#Waste #Inefficiency #Idleness

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...
-- Eliphas Levi

#Idleness

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

#Mind #Body #Idleness

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Parent #Psychology #Idleness

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

#Devil #Idle #Idleness

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

#Disgrace #Idleness

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

#Evil #Occupation #Idleness

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
-- Horace

#Busy #Inertia #Idleness

The frivolous work of polished idleness.
-- James Mackintosh

#Work #Idleness

Idleness induces caprice.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Caprice #Idleness

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

#Secret #Approach #Idleness

I wonder at the idleness of tears.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Tears #Wonder #Idleness

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
-- Louise Wilder

#Simplicity #Aptitude #Idleness

Idleness only leads to bad deeds
-- Magnus Stenbock

#Historical #Deeds #Idleness

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

#Christian #Boredom #Idleness

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
-- Robert Pollok

#Indolence #Enjoyment #Idleness

Grief is a species of idleness.
-- Samuel Johnson

#Grief #Species #Idleness

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

#Brightness #Labor #Idleness

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

#Writing #Labor #Idleness

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
-- Victor Hugo

#Oppression #Idleness

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

#Army #Labor #Idleness

Idleness is paralysis.
-- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

#Paralysis #Idleness

Communism is the flower of idleness.
-- George Ticknor

#Flower #Communism #Idleness