Quotes About Idleness

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

Sloth is not cured with sleep, nor laziness with idleness.

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.

I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

I am having a good time doing nothing.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

Their types were familiar enough to Ralph, who had taken their measure in former wanderings, and come across their duplicates in every scene of continental idleness.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labour;

They delight in sloth, they detest tranquility.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

The grand offence of Jesus was this: He was not the man they had taken Him for; He was not going to be at their service to promote the ends they had in view. Whatever He meant by the bread of life, or by eating His flesh, it was plain that He was not going to be a bread-king, making it His business to furnish supplies for their physical appetites, ushering in a golden age of idleness and plenty.

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

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

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.