Better Quote by Norm MacDonald

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

— Socrates

“Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Tom Hodgkinson

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more...…

— Betty Field

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

I can't sit idle, as I love to work.

— Hiten Tejwani

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for…

— H. L. Mencken

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

— Socrates

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

— Seneca the Younger

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor…

— Anne Baxter

I am capable of being idle.

— Alexander McCall Smith