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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy read more
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc read more
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam
protulat.]
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather read more
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.
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also read more
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
