Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Idleness

Quotes about: Idleness

• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strong, Identity, Idle

  "Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quote" by Dr. A.N. P. Ummerkutty, p. 77, August, 2005.

• Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strong, Catholic, Identity

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

• Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wise, Lying, Wife

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.

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