Idleness Quotes
Idleness Quote of the day
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
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.
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
