Idleness
The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
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Idleness Quotations
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
Idleness Translations
idleness in German is Faulheit
idleness in Norwegian is lediggang, dovenskap
idleness in Spanish is ociosidad
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