~ "Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs." ~
~ “Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible” ~
~ “Idleness is the parent of all psychology” ~
~ “Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace” ~
~ An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. ~
~ For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ~
~ “Idleness is an appendix to nobility” ~
~ How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! ~
~ I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing ~
~ An idle life always produces varied inclinations ~
~ The frivolous work of polished idleness ~
~ 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. ~