It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Idleness Quotes
Millions are idle, but it’s comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
The thought that leads to no action is not thought – it is dreaming.
Those who are satisfied to stand still should not complain when others pass them.
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
The only nation capable of licking the world is stagnation.
Stand still and silently watch the world go by – and it will.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.
Poor Sober! I have often teased him with reproof, and he has often promised reformation; for no man is so much open to conviction as the Idler, but there is none on whom it operates so little. What will be the effect of this paper I know not; perhaps he will read it and laugh, […]
