Let him look to it, who is pleased with the game of Tarocco, that the only signification of this word Tarocco, is stupid, foolish, simple, fit only to be used by Bakers, Coblers, and the vulgar, to play at most for the fourth part of a Carlino, at Tarocchi, or at Trionfi, or any Sminckiate whatever: which in every way signifies only foolery and idleness, feasting the eye with the Sun, and the Moon, and the twelve (signs) as children do.
Let us give to our republic a fourth power with authority over the youth, the hearts of men, public spirit, habits, and republican morality. Let us establish this Areopagus to watch over the education of the children, to supervise national education, to purify whatever may be corrupt in the republic, to denounce ingratitude, coldness in the country's service, egotism, sloth, idleness, and to pass judgment upon the first signs of corruption and pernicious example.
simón bolívarIt is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
calvin coolidgeResearch! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Benjamin JowettPoverty is the reward of idleness.
A day Spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
william wordsworthThere are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me.
Guy de MaupassantThe frivolous work of polished idleness.
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Worldlings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness.
william wordsworthThere is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work.”
Seneca, in advising retirement, had also warned of dangers. In a dialogue called “On Tranquility of Mind,” he wrote that idleness and isolation could bring to the fore all the consequences of having lived life in the wrong way, consequence that people usually avoided by keeping busy that is, by continuing to live life in the wrong way.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Alternate translation: Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work. (translator unknown).
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
Robert Louis Stevensonidleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
hosea ballouidleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.
blair hughidleness is an appendix to nobility.
robert burtonThe true goal of the bourgeois life, in other words, is not self-enactment, but diversion. Most people need the organised distraction of work (if they can find it). idleness - the life of the playboy who doesn't answer the phone - is simply too demanding.
john n. grayThere is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work . Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
albert pikeThee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The Pains and Penalties of idleness.
Alexander Popeidleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
hosea ballouidleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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