“ The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ”
- Arthur Brisbane- Copy
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“ Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ”
- Sir Heneage Ogilvie- Copy
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“ When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results… not great results, but enough to encourage me. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ I'm homosexual… How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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