Quotes on Idleness

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Author: George Borrow

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Author: Robert Burton

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Author: Cyril Connolly

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Author: Ezra Cornell

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Author: Hesiod

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Author: Victor Hugo

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Author: Jerome

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Author: Benjamin Jowett

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Author: Francois Rabelais

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Author: Lizette Reese

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Author: Anthony Trollope

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Author: Eamon Valera

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Author: George White