Idleness Quotes

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

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

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Idleness is paralysis.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

Communism is the flower of idleness.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.