Idle Quote by Victor Hugo

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to…

— Victor Hugo

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

— 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

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

— John Keats

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

— John Lubbock

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 call that man idle who might be better employed.

— Socrates

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

— Tom Hodgkinson

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

— Robert Breault

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

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

— Albert Einstein