The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
Sir James Mackintosh
Quotes , Source: Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy--Remarks on Thomas Brown
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is
corrupted unless it moves.
[Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus
Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 5, 5)
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Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yarn confess
The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 341)
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Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at I, i)
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A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: The Irrational Knot (ch. XVIII)
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam
protulat.]
Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Quotes , Source: Annales (XVI, 18)
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Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.
James Thomson (1)
Quotes , Source: Castle of Indolence (canto I, 72)
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There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Sir Aubrey de Vere
Quotes , Source: A Song of Faith--Devout Exercises and Sonnets
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
Sir James M. Barrie
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A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
Phaedrus
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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Jeremy Collier
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Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George MacDonald
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
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It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Sidney Madwed
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