#idle

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#being #besides #brethren #courses #free

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#idleness #oppressions

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#courts #dogmas #facts #justify #law

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#idleness #which #work

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

#shame #source #toil

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#beat #believe #could #death #elderly

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#idle #invisible #labor #man #thought

It is idle to await unanimity. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#idle #unanimity

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#idle #less #meeting #more #more or less

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. ↗