Quotes About Idleness

Don't you two girls have something better to do, like pick out toe lint? (Acheron)

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to faint meat, Named idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flattered, And froth with mean self-lauding lies. Serve warm: the vessels you must choose To keep it in are dead men's shoes.

passing the time without any labor of intelligence

In fact, the opposite of work isn't play - it's idleness. That's

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

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

Grief is a species of idleness.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

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.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

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

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.