Quotes About Idleness

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.

And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

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

Today is a day like any other: twenty-four hours, a little sunshine, a little rain. Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another—why don't you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another — why don't you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

I prefer to do absolutely nothing. I love to relax. But, if there's a beach around that's where you'll find me.

Pelópidas's father, a collateral descendant, inherited only the name and the aristocratic habit of not working.

Batid ni Kapitan Tiago na maraming santo sa kalendaryo na walang ginagawa, at marahil wala ring ginagawa roon sa langit.

he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.

I am capable of being idle.

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

Being idly hanging around, and that's not good for an actor to do.

To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Weekends do not count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

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

But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, that she might make it less. What restrained her was, no doubt, idleness and fear, and a sense of shame also. She thought she had repulsed him too much, that the time was past, that all was lost. Then pride, the joy of being able to say to herself 'I am virtuous', and to look at herself in the glass taking resigned poses, consoled her a little for the sacrifice she believed she was making.

Badaud. Tous les Parisiens sont des badauds quoique sur dix habitants de Paris il y ait neuf provinciaux. À Paris on ne travaille pas.