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.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

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

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

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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

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.

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

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

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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.

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.

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

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.

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