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
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
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