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Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
Decorum
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
You were the only one
who understood
the futility of the
arrangement of
life;
all the others were only
displeased with
trivial segments,
carped
nonsensically about
nonsense;
Jane, you were
killed by
knowing too much.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature.
Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,
A corruption of intentions.
It came as no surprise to learn of the success the Swede has recently enjoyed with his furniture. In that rotten state of his the Swede is permanently on the lookout for firewood, so it is no wonder that from time to time this might result in the odd table or chair.
Fuck-a-doodle-do.-- Jay Stringer
How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.
I am not doddery ... doddery I am not!
The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
unbounded vanity.
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare? For this your locks in paper durance bound, For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100 For this with fillets strain'd your tender head, And bravely bore the double loads of lead?
Nonsense on stilts
Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.
If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.
Hi Wankershim! Are you going to doodie? WHOAAAA!
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
A word writ doon can hang a man
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.
Be wary of folly.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
A tardiness in nature,
Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do.
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
I'll supervise, shall I?" offered Cogsworth. "To me, 'dust' is a four-letter word."
"'Dust' is a four-letter word to everyone," said Lumiere.
"'Work' is also a four-letter word," said Plumette, under her breath. "Perhaps that is why monsieur strives to avoid it
Lazy: A Manifesto
The mind's nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say 'Why did you come at this wrong time?' And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.
The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.
Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.
Furbling v. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you're the only person in line.
We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.
by indignities men come to dignities
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Fictions, whoppers and paradiddles.
Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.
The insolence of office.
After enlightenment, the laundry.
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow.
The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves.
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Laziness and complacency.
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood
Dancingiseverything,' continued the Sheep Man. 'Danceintip-topform. Dancesoitallkeepsspinning. Ifyoudothat, wemightbeabletodosomethingforyou. Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays.
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!
English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
Stupid people and their stupid people ways!
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything;
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
Carelessness is the handmaiden to tragedy.
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.
The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity.
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
mawage 'mah-'wahge. 1; a bwessed awangement 2; a dweam wifin a dweam - T-SHIRT
A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.