Idleness Quotes

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.

Alexander Pope

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

Sir Aubrey de Vere

Worldings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth,

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility

Barrie Sir James M

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

Virginia Woolf

A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.

Phaedrus

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

"Idleness is the beginning of all vices."

Unknown

"In idleness there is a perpetual despair"

Thomas Carlyle

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth