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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Lord Chesterfield

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Miguel De Cervantes

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.