Idleness Quotes

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

A Dandy does nothing.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

Idleness induces caprice.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Writing is busy idleness.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Idleness ruins the constitution

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.