Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
That man is idle who can do something better.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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 employment whatsoever
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
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