~ “I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely” ~
~ In idleness there is a perpetual despair” ~
~ Thus idly busy rolls their world away ~
~ I live an idle burden to the ground. ~
~ Busy idleness urges us on ~
~ Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ~
~ Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness ~
~ That man is idle who can do something better. ~
~ Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. ~
~ 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. ~
~ To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. ~
~ The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it ~