Idleness Quotes · Page 13

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and…

— Brenda Ueland

Idleness induces caprice.

— James Russell Lowell

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for…

— John Ruskin

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

— Anonymous

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

— Hasan of Basra

A Dandy does nothing.

— Charles Baudelaire

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Samuel Butler

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred…

— Samuel Johnson

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and…

— Jeremy Taylor

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

— Mark Twain

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

— William Godwin

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,…

— Maria Edgeworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

— William Wordsworth

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

— Cyril Connolly

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

— Tacitus

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

— Victor Hugo

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who…

— Robertson Davies

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any…

— Edmund Burke