Activity Quote by Cesare Pavese

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

— Jeremy Collier

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

— Russell Lynes

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

— Magnus Stenbock

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

— Floyd Dell

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

— Bhartrhari

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

— John Quincy Adams

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

— Cyril Connolly

I don't like idle time.

— Lou Williams

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann