I'm not very happy idle.
An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.
Things that seem too common: too many furnishings where one is sitting; too many brushes around an inkstone; too many Buddhas in a home chapel; too many stones and trees and bushes in a garden courtyard; too many children and grandchildren in a house...
The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and relaxing in baths lets the mind wander and frees the subconscious to do work on our behalf. Freeman Dyson, a world-class physi...
For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine...
It is idle to await unanimity.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generatio...
