Idleness Quotations
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| Idleness is the beginning of all vices. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
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| Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. | |||
| - St. Jerome | |||
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| Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
| 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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| The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. | |||
| - John Lubbock | |||
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| Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. | |||
| - E.V. Lucas | |||
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| All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. | |||
| - Blaise Pascal | |||
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| The hardest work is to go idle. | |||
| - Yiddish Proverb | |||
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| There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. | |||
| - John Ruskin | |||
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| Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||