#idleness

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#kisses #like #must #stolen #sweet

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#idleness #labor #writing #yet

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#anything #combined #cradle #filled #hard

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#best #dread #enough #hell #i

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#day #golf #idleness #round #spent

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

#accuser #avenue #closes #hard #idleness

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dreams #idleness #our #our dreams #sometimes

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dreams #idleness #our #our dreams #sometimes

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#every #every time #excuse #female #idleness