Idleness - Quotes

Idleness buries a man alive. - John Thornton

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

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. - Hosea Ballou

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. - Albert Camus

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. - Benjamin Franklin

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. - Cesare Pavese

Idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them – their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is better to be idle than employed in ill. - Norman MacDonald

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don’t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. - Bishop Robert South

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. - Thomas Carlyle

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is incapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions. - Joseph Hall

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. - George S. Hilliard

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. - George MacDonald