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

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

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