Idleness Quotes

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.