Quotes About Idleness

Miquel Moliner estaba poseído por esa laboriosidad culpable, y aunque respetaba y hasta envidiaba la ociosidad de los demás, huía de ella como de la peste. Lejos de presumir de su ética de trabajo, bromeaba sobre su compulsión productiva y la describía como una forma menor de cobardía. -Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos

She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen: dirty and greedy and mean and sad.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

For the thinking person there is no such thing as idleness... By contrast, one might say that the thinking person is at his most active when he is supposedly doing nothing. This is beyond the comprehension of genuinely idle people

The thinking person who is idle appears as the greatest threat to those for whom idleness means simply doing nothing, who actually do nothing when they are idle.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

The sluggish Christian will be sleeping, or idling, or trifling, when he should be in his closet a-praying. Sloth is the green-sickness of the soul; get it cured, or it will be your eternal bane. Of all devils, it is the idle devil that keeps men most out of their closets. There is nothing that gives the devil so much advantage against us as idleness.

Where shall I turn, what shall I do?' are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.

Where shall I turn, what shall I do? are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.

Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body.

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

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. Lord Chesterfield

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

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

The idle mind is the devil's workshop

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

It is no rest to be idle.

Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.