Top Idleness Quotes
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Bishop Robert South
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov 
81% of people like this quote
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Bishop Robert South
72% of people like this quote
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
57% of people like this quote
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
57% of people like this quote
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
56% of people like this quote
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Lord Melbourne
55% of people like this quote
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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Popular Idleness Authors
Friedrich NietzscheBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonVictor HugoSamuel ButlerAmbrose BierceThomas CarlyleVirginia WoolfFranz KafkaLord ChesterfieldMiguel De CervantesAnthony TrollopeSoren KierkegaardHerman MelvilleCyril Connolly
Jean Jacques RousseauAnton Chekhov HesiodFrancois RabelaisSidonie Gabrielle ColetteWilliam WordsworthAgatha ChristieJerome K. JeromeEamon de ValeraRobert BurtonEzra CornellBenjamin JowettJohn LubbockJeremy CollierBishop Robert South
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