Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Idleness Quotes
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness – the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness – either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and […]
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
The’ feller that sets on a store box with his mouth full of scrap terbacker while his wife is at home sewing’ fer a living’ knows jist exactly how t’ regulate the railroads.
Wherever you run up against me, Postumus, you call out immediately “How do you?” These are your first words: you say them if you meet me ten times in the course of an hour. Do, indeed I suppose you have nothing to do.
It is better to play than do nothing.
A loafer always has the correct time.
