Idle Quote by Samuel Butler

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

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means…

— Samuel Smiles

The devil finds work for idle hands.

— Henry David Thoreau

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

— Henry Ford

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

— Samuel Smiles

I find work for idle hands

— Christon Henry

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because…

— Irvine Welsh

Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I…

— Maria W. Stewart

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.”

— Michael Grant

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche