Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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.
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
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