Idleness Quotes

269 Idleness quotes by 179 unique authors

His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! — Emily Dickinson
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness. — Thales
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it. — Jean de la Bruyere
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses. — Tim Ferriss
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. — Jerome K. Jerome
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. — Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from… — Samuel Johnson
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Kierkegaard
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or… — John Lubbock
Idleness is the parent of psychology. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. — William Wordsworth
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no… — Soren Kierkegaard
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. — Albert Camus
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of… — Hermann Hesse
Idleness breeds our better virtues. — William Faulkner

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