Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.
Lew Wallace
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell
Grief is a species of idleness.
Samuel Johnson
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Earl Of Chesterfield
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