Idleness Quotes
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Idleness Quotes & Sayings
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Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity.
— Kim Holden
Idleness is only the refuge of weakminds, and the holiday of fools. — Philip Dormer Stanhope
Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness
— Sunday Adelaja
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
— Abraham Lincoln
An idle genius is an oxymoron.
— James Thornton
Idleness is the key of beggary.
— Charles Spurgeon
We strike fatal blows to idleness with our productivity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
— Thomas Jefferson
It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
— Tim Winton
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
— Lawrence Durrell
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
— William Ralph Inge
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
— Robert Pollok
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
— Gustave Flaubert
Idleness is seductive.Just relax and do nothing, it says. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
— John Keats
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
— Oscar Wilde
He mingled idleness and idealism so that he could not separate them.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
— Eamon De Valera
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
— Leo Tolstoy
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
— Ezra Cornell
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
— Benjamin Franklin
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
— William J. Clinton
True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Idleness leads to insolence.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
— Herman Melville
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
— Benjamin Jowett
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
— Mason Cooley
Communism is the flower of idleness.
— George Ticknor
Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
— Mary Balogh
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
— Paul Valery
Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
— Ambrose Bierce
We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Busy mouths grow on idle heads
— Agona Apell
Idleness is paralysis.
— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
— Mark Twain
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
— Pope Paul VI
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
— John Quincy Adams
I never remember feeling tired by work. though idleness exhausts me completely.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
— Charles Baudelaire
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
— Beatrice Webb
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.
— J. Reuben Clark
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
— Samuel Smiles
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will ...
— Eliphas Levi
Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
For Kim did nothing with an immense success.
— Rudyard Kipling
It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.
— Mary Balogh
A Dandy does nothing.
— Charles Baudelaire
There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence.
— Leo Tolstoy
Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government ...
— Margot Asquith
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.
— Sara Sheridan
Grief is a species of idleness.
— Samuel Johnson
Machinery which is not used is not capital.
— Karl Marx
Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
— Anthony Burgess
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.
— Virginia Woolf
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
— Samuel Johnson
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
— Agatha Christie
My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.
— Francis Thompson
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
— George MacDonald
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
