Quotes About Idleness

The camel's hump is an ugly lump, Which well you might see at the zoo. But uglier yet is the hump we get, For having to little to do.

Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Of course the act of drinking tea was, in and of itself, quite troublesome, as it had been known to lead to all sorts of sins: idleness, gossip, political activity, subversive thinking.

Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.

What I like doing best is Nothing.

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

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

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. 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.

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.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.