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
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
A Dandy does nothing.
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.