#idleness

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

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

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#idleness #perish #remove #soon #world

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. ↗

— Iain Pears

#laziness #occupation #occupied-france #politics #war

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#life #solitude #life