~ Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~
~ In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure ~
~ What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness? ~
~ Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. ~
~ Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. ~
~ If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. ~
~ Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. ~
~ An idle life always produces varied inclinations. ~
~ Idleness is many, gathered miseries in one name. ~
~ Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin. ~
~ Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow. ~
~ Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. ~