Idleness Quotes

Doing nothing is doing evil.

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.

Lazy people are always wanting to do something.

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand.

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.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

The’ feller that sets on a store box with his mouth full of scrap terbacker while his wife is at home sewing’ fer a living’ knows jist exactly how t’ regulate the railroads.