Idleness Quotes

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

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

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.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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.

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

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

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

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

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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