• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

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• Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

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  Anonymous

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• Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

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  Anonymous

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• Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 175 reads

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• Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.

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  Anonymous

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• Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 94 reads

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• Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 6 reads

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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 180 reads

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• Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 71 reads

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• Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them -their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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  Anonymous

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• That man is idle who can do something better.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 46 votes · 71 reads

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• The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

  

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  Anonymous

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• The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 67 reads

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• There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 110 reads

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 63 reads

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• Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 122 reads

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

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.8 · 25 votes · 171 reads

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