Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Idleness
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.
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Trouble Springs From Idleness.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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The used key is always bright.
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Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
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We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
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Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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