Idleness Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Idleness Quotes from famous persons: Ambrose Bierce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anne Baxter, John Cooper Clarke, Johann G. Seume. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Idleness Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil‘s home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

Idleness – a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything – is the poet‘s friend.

John Cooper Clarke

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Gluttony and idleness are two of life‘s great joys, but they are not honourable.

Julie Burchill

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Anthony Trollope

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease – the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

Samuel Smiles

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Franz Kafka

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Francois Rabelais

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Benjamin Jowett

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson

It’s heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

William J. Clinton

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

George Borrow

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer‘s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Cyril Connolly

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

Hesiod

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Herman Melville

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

George H. White

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Hannah More

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I’d rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

Karen Allen

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