Art Quote by Emily James Smith Putnam

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

— Robert Burton

The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman.

— Caroline A Huling

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

— Jostein Gaarder

“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness before the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is…

— Benjamin Franklin

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the…

— J. G. Holland

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he…

— Joseph Hall

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

— Victor Hugo

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with…

— Samuel Johnson

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

— Benedict of Nursia