{"topic":"laziness","quotes":[{"quote":"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.","author":"Agatha Christie"},{"quote":"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.","author":"Edgar Bergen"},{"quote":"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.","author":"Floyd Dell"},{"quote":"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.","author":"Hippocrates"},{"quote":"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.","author":"Jules Renard"},{"quote":"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.","author":"Jules Renard"},{"quote":"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.","author":"Mahatma Gandhi"},{"quote":"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.","author":"Mary Wilson Little"},{"quote":"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.","author":"Pliny the Younger"},{"quote":"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard"},{"quote":"Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.","author":"Thomas a Kempis"},{"quote":"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.","author":"Thomas Fuller"},{"quote":"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.","author":"Thomas Jefferson"}]}