Idleness Quotes

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Samuel Johnson

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness

George MacDonald

That man is idle who can do something better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Karl Kraus

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it

John Lubbock

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

E.V. Lucas

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Bible

As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

John Heywood

Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her.

John Hunter

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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