#idleness

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

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#idleness #which #work

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

#shame #source #toil

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

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

Idleness is the parent of psychology. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#parent #psychology

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#idleness #perish #remove #soon #world

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

#been #care #endeavors #every #every man

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#evil #far #good #idleness #only