Quotes About Idleness

To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

Tibor Fischer, Good To Be God

When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

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

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Our philanthropy prefers to. recognize the signs of a benevolence. toward sickness where there is only a. condemnation of idleness

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

What's better than work?" He paused. "What's worse than work?

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

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

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

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.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

When the governor ordered him to travel around the district courts to administer justice and he arrived at Gades, he noticed the statue of Alexander the Great at the temple of Hercules and groaned as though disgusted with his own idleness—he had done nothing worth remembering at an age when Alexander had already conquered the world. He

Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort. All space must be and is filled with something . . . When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.

L'uomo, per tua regola, nasca ricco o povero, è obbligato in questo mondo a far qualcosa, a occuparsi, a lavorare. Guai a lasciarsi prendere dall'ozio! L'ozio è una bruttissima malattia, e bisogna guarirla subito, fin da ragazzi: se no, quando siamo grandi, non si guarisce più.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.