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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

Idleness is the key of beggary. — Charles Spurgeon

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot

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

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness. — Hesiod

A Dandy does nothing. — Charles Baudelaire

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes

Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence. — Leo Tolstoy

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou

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

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 is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. — John Quincy Adams

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever — Edmund Burke

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will ... — Eliphas Levi

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Johann G. Seume

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. — A.A. Milne

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. — Hesiod

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. — Samuel Johnson

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — Samuel Johnson

Trouble Springs From Idleness. — Benjamin Franklin

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian. — Pope Paul VI

Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks. — Anonymous