Affirmation Quote by Charles Bradlaugh

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for…

— Anonymous

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

— Cyril Connolly

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

— Robert Burton

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

— John Cooper Clarke

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

— Benjamin Franklin

“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment…

— Edward Rutledge

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”

— Anthony Burgess

“idleness is the ideal of genius, and indolence the virtue of the Romantic.”

— Jostein Gaarder

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

— Augustus William Hare

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

— Paul Johnson