Idleness is the mother of all vices.

Russian Proverb
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TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
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UNKNOWN
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RUSSIAN PROVERB
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Idleness is the parent of all psychology
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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JANE LINDSKOLD
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
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AGATHA CHRISTIE
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AGATHA CHRISTIE
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idlenes...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
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AGATHA CHRISTIE A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
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SIR WALTER SCOTT
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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Running everywhere ...
JOHN LENNON
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
FRANCIS BACON
Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Grief is a species of idleness.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
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Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
OVID
Thoughts without their fulfillment — is the beginning of idleness.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
HESIOD
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
ALBERT CAMUS
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
OSCAR WILDE
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
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Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom
AESCHYLUS
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
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The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
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