Idleness Quotes

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Of all our faults,
the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Busy idleness urges us on.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

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

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Idleness is paralysis.

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

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

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

Communism is the flower of idleness.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Idleness induces caprice.

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

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

A Dandy does nothing.

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

Idleness ruins the constitution

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

Writing is busy idleness.

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

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

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

I wonder at the idleness of tears.