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.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Homer
12.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
15.
Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace
17.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
19.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
22.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
24.
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Friedrich Nietzsche
29.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Charles Baudelaire
32.
Idleness ruins the constitution
Ovid
33.
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
Russell Lynes
35.
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Ovid
36.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
Tim Ferriss
37.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
Lawrence Durrell
41.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Hesiod
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Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Pope Paul VI