Idleness Quotes

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

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

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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.

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

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

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.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.