Idleness Quotes
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A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death, but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass. (Quote by - Hester Lynch Thrale)
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. (Quote by - Anne Baxter)
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
Busy idleness urges us on. (Quote by - Horace)
The hardest work is to go idle. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
That man is idle who can do something better. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. (Quote by - George H. White)
His labour is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon! (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. (Quote by - Ezra Cornell)
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
In the diligence of his idleness. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. (Quote by - Bible)
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. (Quote by - Plato)
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Evil thoughts often come from idleness. (Quote by - Gaelic Proverb)
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal, Pensées)
An idle life always produces varied inclinations. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
I wonder at the idleness of tears. (Quote by - Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Idleness ruins the constitution (Quote by - Ovid)
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. (Quote by - Publius Ovidius Naso)
Idleness is the holiday of fools. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson )
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle. (Quote by - French proverb)
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. (Quote by - Sir James M. Barrie)
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. (Quote by - George Borrow)
For idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
How sweet and sacred idleness is! (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. (Quote by - George Stillman Hillard)
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman. (Quote by - Caroline A. Huling)
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. (Quote by - Lew Wallace)
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. (Quote by - Johann G. Seume)
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Indolence is the sleep of the mind. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
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. (Quote by - Lord Melbourne)
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. (Quote by - Caius Silius Italicus)
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. (Quote by - Jenny Joseph)
Idleness is the key of beggary. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Be not solitary, be not idle. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! (Quote by - William Cowper)
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. (Quote by - Sir Aubrey de Vere)
As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
He is idle that might be better employed. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow. (Quote by - James Thomson (1))
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure (Quote by - George Eliot)
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. (Quote by - Buddha)
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Idleness is many, gathered miseries in one name. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter )
Idleness is the parent of all psychology (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
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. (Quote by - John Lubbock)
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. (Quote by - St. Jerome)
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. (Quote by - William E. Barrett)
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. (Quote by - Sherlock Holmes)
Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. (Quote by - John Hunter)
Did nothing in particular, and did it very well. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
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. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. (Quote by - Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. (Quote by - Dr Samuel Johnson )
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. (Quote by - Ralph Borsodi)
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. (Quote by - Thomas Haliburton)
Idleness is the parent of psychology. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. (Quote by - Walter Gaston Shotwell)
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. (Quote by - Hesiod)
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 (Quote by - Dame Agatha Christie)
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. (Quote by - Sidney Madwed)
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do. (Quote by - Megiddo Message)
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. (Quote by - Benjamin Jowett)
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
The frivolous work of polished idleness. (Quote by - Sir James Mackintosh)
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. (Quote by - E.V. Lucas)
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
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. (Quote by - Karen Allen)
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. (Quote by - Horace)
Worldings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness. (Quote by - William Wordsworth,)
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? (Quote by - John Heywood)
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. (Quote by - Eamon de Valera)
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. (Quote by - Jeremy Collier)
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. (Quote by - Dr Samuel Johnson)
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
Thus idly busy rolls their world away. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
In idleness there is a perpetual despair. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I live an idle burden to the ground. (Quote by - Homer)
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. (Quote by - Hesiod)
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. (Quote by - John Lubbock)
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. (Quote by - Voltaire)
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. (Quote by - Barrie Sir James)
The hardest work of all is to do nothing. (Quote by - Proverb)
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. (Quote by - William Cowper)
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. (Quote by - Socrates)
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
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. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
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. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
