Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Idleness Quotes
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.
Wherever you run up against me, Postumus, you call out immediately “How do you?” These are your first words: you say them if you meet me ten times in the course of an hour. Do, indeed I suppose you have nothing to do.
It is better to play than do nothing.
A loafer always has the correct time.
Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
Idleness is the parent of all psychology.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
