Idleness Quotes, Sayings about being idle

Get busy living or get busy dying.
– Stephen King

He who indulges in idleness, deserves no success.
– Dr T.P.Chia

An idling mind produces a weak learner who enjoys the comfort of leisure time.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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

Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
– Lord Chesterfield

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
– Samuel Johnson

The hardest work is to go idle.
– Yiddish Proverb

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
– St. Jerome

Even the strongest of iron is eaten away by rust.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
– Samuel Johnson

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
– Albert Camus

One of the commonest characteristics of the successful man is his idleness, his immense capacity for wasting time.
– Arnold Bennett

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
– Henry Ford

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
– Benjamin Franklin

There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor.
– John Ruskin

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
– Johann Gottfried Seume

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
– George Bernard Shaw

There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness.
– Robert Burton

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
– John Lubbock

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
– Voltaire

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.
– John Lubbock

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
– Bill Watterson

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
– Victor Hugo

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
– Hesiod

Idleness gives great advantage to the tempter. Standing waters gather filth.
– Matthew Henry

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.
– Proverb