(145 quotes found)
“Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could”
Jeremy Taylor
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Virginia Woolf
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Idleness is the parent of all psychology”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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”
“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”
Socrates
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
Oscar Wilde
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