Idleness Quotes
+1It is no rest to be idle.
- Paul Peel
+1Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter Vries
+1Busy idleness urges us on.
- Horace
+1Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The hardest work is to go idle.
- Yiddish Proverb
+1Grief is a species of idleness.
- Samuel Johnson
+1In the diligence of his idleness.
- Hosea Ballou
+1Expect poison from standing water.
- William Blake
+1I live an idle burden to the ground.
- Homer J Simpson
+1Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
- Oliver Goldsmith
+1Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
- Gaelic Proverb
+1Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
- Proverb
+1For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
- Robert Burton
+1The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- James Mackintosh
+1He is idle that might be better employed.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
+1The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
- Proverb
+1Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
- Jean Paul
+1Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
- W. S. Gilbert
+1Idleness, like kisses,to be sweet must be stolen.
- Jerome K. Jerome
+1An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
- Lucanus
+1Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
- John Quincy Adams
+1With enough ‘ifs’ we could put Paris into a bottle.
- French Proverb
+1The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
- Bible
+1For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
- Isaac Watts
+1Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
- E.V. Lucas
+1How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
- Spanish Proverb
+1Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
- William E. Barrett
+1A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
- Phaedrus
+1Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
- La Rochefoucauld
+1All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
- Blaise Pascal
+1Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
- St. Jerome
+1Nine tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
- John Heywood
+1The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
- John Lubbock
+1I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
- Sherlock Holmes
+1Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
- Thomas Haliburton
+1As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
- Edgar Watson Howe
