Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.
Grief is a species of idleness.
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
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