Agitation Quote by Samuel Johnson

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

— Benedict of Nursia

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

— John Quincy Adams

Idleness is an expert thief,and our mind is its victim.

— Abid Al Qarni

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is…

— Jeremy Taylor