Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
Idleness Quotes
Let us be grateful to Adam our benefactor. He cut us out of the “blessing” of idleness and won for us the “curse” of labor.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
The higher men climb the longer their working day. And any young man with a streak of idleness in him may better make up his mind at the beginning that mediocrity will be his lot. Without immense, sustained effort he will not climb high. And even though fortune or chance were to lift him high, […]
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Blessed is the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
