Quotes about Idleness

“Expect poison from standing water.”

“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”

“An idle brain is the devil's workshop.”

“The way to be nothing is to do nothing.”

“The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”

“The insupportable labor of doing nothing.”

“Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.”

“That man is idle who can do something better.”

“Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.”

“Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.”

“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”

“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”

“Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”

“Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”

“As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.”

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

“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

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

“Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.”

“Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”

“It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.”

“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”

“A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”

“'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

“Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.”

“Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.”