Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is […]
Idleness Quotes
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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.
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.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
