The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand.
Idleness Quotes
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.
The devil tempts all men, but the idle men tempt the devil.
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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.
Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
