Idleness Quotes

269 Idleness quotes by 179 unique authors

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it. — J. Reuben Clark
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron — Ezra Cornell
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable… — John Ruskin
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
That man is idle who can do something better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. — Victor Hugo
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a… — Haile Selassie
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered. — Unknown Author
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily… — Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. — Samuel Johnson
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. — John Bunyan
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. — Herman Melville
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. — Eamon de Valera
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at… — Brenda Ueland
The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness. — Irwin Edman
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of… — Bertrand Russell

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