Quote: Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. Author: Sherlock Holmes Fictional Detective (Sir Conan Doyle)
Quote: The way to be nothing is to do nothing. Author: Nathaniel Howe
Quote: A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Author: Jerome K. Jerome 1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright
Quote: As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. Author: Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
Quote: It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. Author: Sidney Madwed American Speaker, Consultant, Author, Poet
Quote: There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. Author: Hannah More 1745-1833, British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist
Quote: Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. Author: Jean Paul
Quote: He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers. Author: Proverb
Quote: The hardest work of all is to do nothing. Author: Proverb
Quote: An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. Author: Johann G. Seume 1763-1810, German Theologist
Quote: Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. Author: Elizabeth Smart
Quote: The insupportable labor of doing nothing. Author: Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor
Quote: A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Sometimes I think that 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, ''I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out.'' If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.'' Author: Ben Vereen
Quote: Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. Author: Isaac Watts 1674-1748, British hymn-writer
Quote: Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. Author: Anne Baxter 1923-1985, American Actress
Quote: The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Expect poison from standing water. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Author: Robert Burton 1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar
Quote: Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. Author: Jeremy Collier 1650-1726, British Clergyman, Conjuror
Quote: Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Author: Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic
Quote: The life of ease is a difficult pursuit. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet
Quote: Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor
Quote: That man is idle who can do something better. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat