One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
Idleness Quotes
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
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.
