1.
Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.
Robert Bellarmine
6.
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
Thales
7.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates
11.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
12.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Homer
16.
Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace
17.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
20.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
22.
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Friedrich Nietzsche
26.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
29.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Charles Baudelaire
31.
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
Russell Lynes
33.
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Ovid
34.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
Tim Ferriss
35.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
Lawrence Durrell
39.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Hesiod
40.
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Pope Paul VI
43.
Idleness ruins the constitution
Ovid