Idleness Quotes and Sayings - Page 2

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