Idleness Quotes

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.