Idleness Quotes
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. Jean Paul
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. Benjamin Franklin
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. Sir James M. Barrie
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo Da Vinci
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. H. L. Mencken
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. Elizabeth Smart
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. Anonymous
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, ''I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out.'' If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.'' Ben Vereen
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37] Bible
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson
The way to be nothing is to do nothing. Nathaniel Howe
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. Benjamin Franklin
The insupportable labor of doing nothing. Sir Richard Steele
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. Sherlock Holmes
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. Anne Baxter
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative. Anonymous
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. Samuel Johnson
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. Sidney Madwed
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. Jeremy Collier
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. Benjamin Franklin
Expect poison from standing water. William Blake
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. Samuel Johnson
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Robert Burton
The hardest work of all is to do nothing. Proverb
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. Hannah More
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit. William Cowper
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers. Proverb
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. Isaac Watts
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
An idle brain is the devil's workshop. English Proverb
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. Karl Kraus
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. Henry David Thoreau
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. Johann G. Seume
Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs. Anonymous
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard
Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone. Anonymous
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. Victor Hugo
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. James Thurber
That man is idle who can do something better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. Mahatma Gandhi
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