Top Idleness Quotes
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Bishop Robert South
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov 
81% of people like this quote
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Bishop Robert South
74% of people like this quote
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
58% of people like this quote
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
55% of people like this quote
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
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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
54% of people like this quote
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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Friedrich NietzscheBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonVictor HugoSamuel ButlerAmbrose BierceThomas CarlyleVirginia WoolfFranz KafkaLord ChesterfieldMiguel De CervantesAnthony TrollopeSoren KierkegaardHerman MelvilleCyril Connolly
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