#idle

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#does #happiness #idleness #life #only

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ↗

— William Congreve

#come #faculty #father #father time #fools

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#empty #idle #importance #selfish #stuck-up

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#almost #certain #certainly #coupled #divorced

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#art form #discovered #especially #fire #form

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. ↗

— Tony Scott

#close #day #england #every #every day

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#between #differences #dishonest #hard #hard working

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ↗

— Hannah More

#certain #children #evil #idleness #ill

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated. ↗

— Chris Patten

#i #mean #should #think #unbridled

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#enslaved #everything #i #idle #life