Idleness Quotes

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

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

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.

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

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

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, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

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 is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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