Quotes About Idleness

I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth this was not so much a philosophical mistrust for the worldly, the mundane and transitory—no, rather it was unpardonable infantile idleness and gross negligence. I would rather do anything than read through a contract.

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

Businessmen warned that idleness breeds mischief and-even worse-radicalism.

am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage, forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness the apathy and the hyperbolical & most asinine stupidity of these fatheaded oafs and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience & assiduity?

We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this rebelius world will never touch us. Ignoring death, pretending it will never happen, or that if it does, the great, kind, merciful God will overlook our years of defiance and whisk us off to some magical land where we can go right on in our wicked ways.

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.

Jogging is my idea of nothing to do.

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

Sale de la guerra, la paz; de la paz, la abundancia; de la abundancia, el ocio; del ocio, el vicio; del vicio, la guerra

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Televisio is a vehicle that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no other purpose but creating mischief.

It's Friday; you ain't got no job… you ain't got shit to do

ìIdleness is the parent of all psychologyî

Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money 'merely' is to be truly idle or worse. If the labourer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.. You must get your living by loving.

for the devil finds employment for the idle

the devil finds employment for the idle —

The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness.

Mas o trabalho manual, mesmo quando se torna quase enfadonho e pesado, talvez nunca seja a pior forma de ociosidade

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Oh dear, I'm quite alone, I've nothing on earth to do.

In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.