Idleness Quotes and Sayings
Idleness is the parent of all psychology.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired.
- John Stuart Mill
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 is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
- John Quincy Adams
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
- Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
- Robert Burton
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
- Thomas Carlyle
The hardest work is to go idle.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
~John Lubbock
Grief is a species of idleness.
– Samuel Johnson
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
- Farley Mowat
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
- St. Jerome
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
- Voltaire
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
- William E. Barrett
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.
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
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
- Tom Hodgkinson