Idleness Quotes

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is idle that might be better employed.

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the conse...

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler ou...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of...

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from ev...

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do...

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is us...

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and d...

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by be...

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get ple...

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without ...

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am theref...

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aiml...

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do ...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, havin...

I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, havin...

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the lik...

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something ...

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

Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. W...

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can ...

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

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

I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precis...

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality ...

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic a...

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.