“If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country”
Benjamin Franklin
“I am the captain of this ship! I have control of what's goes on or in.”
Philip T. M.
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.”
Mark Twain
“Oh it is good to ride and run,To roam the greenwood wild and free;To hunt, to idle in the sun,To leap into the laughing sea”
Robert Service
“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
