Life Quote by J. Maarten Troost

“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!”

— Friedrich Schlegel

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

— George Whitefield

“idleness is the root of all evil.”

— Anthony Trollope

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then,…

— Carlo Collodi

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to…

— John Gray

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

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired”

— John Stuart Mill

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling.…

— Gary Hamel