Idleness Quotes

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

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.