All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

— Pablo Picasso

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you…

— Tom Hodgkinson

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head…

— Thomas Hardy

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

— Tom Hodgkinson

“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I…

— Osamu Dazai

The faster you go, the idler you get.

— Ferreira Gullar

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them -…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

— Peter Kropotkin

No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my…

— Dominique Fernandez

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

— Horace Greeley

“It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling,…

— J. Maarten Troost

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven…

— Arthur Conan Doyle