Quotes About Idleness

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

You see," continued another in a more conciliatory tone, "it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

As Claude-Anne Lopez notes, "In colonial America it was sinful to look idle, in France it was vulgar to look busy.

Sir Everard had never been himself a student, and, like his sister Miss Rachael Waverley, held the vulgar doctrine, that idleness is incompatible with reading of any kind, and that the mere tracing the alphabetical characters with the eye, is in itself a useful and meritorious task, without scrupulously considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With

Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.