QUOTE A DAY - January 16, 2018

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*---- Quotes For The Day ----*
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
--Thomas Jefferson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
--Soren Kierkegaard

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
--Mahatma Gandhi


**--- MYSTERY 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.

See at the bottom for the answer



*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
--Jules Renard

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
--Floyd Dell

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
--Hippocrates, Decorum


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

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.

ANSWER: Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

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