Idleness Quotes and Sayings
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
- Bill Watterson
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
- Albert Camus
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A.A. Milne
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
- William E. Barrett
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
- Voltaire
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
- St. Jerome
The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.
- Walter Gaston Shotwell
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.
lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired.
- John Stuart Mill
Grief is a species of idleness.
– Samuel Johnson
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
- Proverb
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
- Hesiod
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
- Tom Hodgkinson
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
- John Quincy Adams
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
- Robert Burton