Quotes About Idleness

La camera si riempì ora di azioni decise e precise, le quali però, essendo nate dalla noia, dall'oziosità, dal capriccio, celavano in sé una certa dose di imbecillità.

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

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

Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

Idling has always been my strong point.

Idling has always been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter-it is a gift.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ? Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow . (Mondial October 19, 2005) Originally published 1886.

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do and plenty of time in which to do it.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Idleness, seldom good for anyone, was particularly unhealthy for William Treadwell. It unlocked a certain door in his mind, making it easier for Dark Ones to enter.

There's never any knowing—how am I to put it?—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. —E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.