Idleness Quotations

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.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

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

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

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

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.

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.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

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.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

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

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

A Dandy does nothing.

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

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

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....

Busy idleness urges us on.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Idleness ruins the constitution

Idleness induces caprice.

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

Writing is busy idleness.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Grief is a species of idleness.