~ 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. ~
~ If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy. ~
~ Idleness is the key of beggary. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Worldings revelling in the fields
Of strenuous idleness. ~
~ 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 ~
~ It is in our idleness, in our dreams,
that the submerged truth
sometimes comes to the top. ~
~ A nation rushing hastily too and fro,
busily employed in idleness. ~
~ 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. ~
~ "Idleness is the beginning of all vices." ~
~ "In idleness there is a perpetual despair" ~
~ The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth ~