Busy Quote by William Cowper

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

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

— Socrates

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

— Louise Wilder

“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.”

— Socrates

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

That man is idle who can do something better.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Socrates

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of…

— Edmund Burke

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— John Keats

“Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness”

— Sunday Adelaja

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