Idleness Quotes

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

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

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.