"Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools"
Lord Chesterfield
"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"
Benjamin Franklin
"Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
William Shakespeare
"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
Benjamin Franklin
"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."
William Wordsworth
ìPurity of mind and idleness are incompatibleî
Mahatma Gandhi
ìIdleness is the parent of all psychologyî
Friedrich Nietzsche
ìWork is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgraceî
Hesiod
ìIdleness is an appendix to nobilityî
Robert Burton
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
William Cowper
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
William Cowper
An idle life always produces varied inclinations
Lucanus