Idleness Quotes

“My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day; It was half after two, He had nothing to do, So his Lordship rang for his cabriolet.”

“Idleness is not the same as leisure; to be idle is not to be free.”

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.”

“Looking back, I seem to have spent a large part of my life doing nothing.”

“Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief author of all mischief.”

“To be at leisure is not to be idle.”

“A life of idleness is a sad thing.”

“One of the chiefest causes of idleness is the fear of labour.”

“Try to be idle. It is astonishing how much you will be able to do.”

“For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.”

“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness.”

“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”

“Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If not, when you are old, it can never be cured.”

“Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What more is there to explain?”

“An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.”

“To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the ink slab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever random thoughts pass through my mind, is in truth a strange and crazy thing to do.”

“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”

“Grief is a species of idleness.”

“Love is the great occupation of idleness.”

“To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the ink-slab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my mind, is in truth a strange and crazy thing to do.”