Idleness Quotes

269 Idleness quotes by 179 unique authors

Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued… — Vladimir Lenin
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,… — Samuel Johnson
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic… — Seneca the Younger
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. — Dorothy Parker
Grief is a species of idleness. — Samuel Johnson
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. — Oscar Wilde
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… — Anne Baxter
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which… — Samuel Johnson
In idleness there is a perpetual despair. — Thomas Carlyle
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. — Victor Hugo
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Johann Gottfried Seume
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own… — Confucius
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford
Idleness only leads to bad deeds — Unknown Author
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One… — Plato
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... — Hippocrates
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it… — Carlo Collodi
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau
He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness. — Louise Wilder

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