Quotes About Idleness

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

A conclusion I've come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it's really about making work into something that isn't drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies

If the belly is full," she said, "if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.

many a woman would have let her mind lie idle while she worked in the fields, but I have ever seen this difference between you and other women, that your mind cannot be idle, and I say I never know what is coming out of you. And so I never tire of you, old woman.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

O blessed idleness! Divine lazy nymph! Reach me a novel as I lie in my dressing-gown at three o'clock in the afternoon; compound a sherry-cobbler for me, and bring me a cigar! Dear slatternly, smiling Enchantress! They may assail thee with bad names—swear thy character away, and call thee the Mother of Evil; but, for all that, thou art the best company in the world!

Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a labouring day without the sign Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?

I rather would entreat thy company, To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than (living dully sluggardiz'd at home) Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.