| To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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| 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. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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