#idle

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. ↗

— Robert Burton

#idleness #nobility

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#idleness #men #sin #some #some men

The idle always have a mind to do something. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#idle #mind #something

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#every #every time #excuse #female #idleness

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#happy #head #i #idle #says