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It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that read more
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Never get out of bed before noon
Never get out of bed before noon
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
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Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yarn confess
The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.