Idleness Quotes

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. - William Beveridge

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. - Benjamin Franklin

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. - Hesiod

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. - Herman Melville

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. - Samuel Johnson

Though these Indians dwell among the English and see in what plenty a little industry enables them to live, yet they choose to continue in their stupid idleness and to suffer all the inconveniences of dirt, cold, and want rather than disturb their heads with care or defile their hands with labor. - William Byrd

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. - Bill Watterson

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. - Robert Townsend

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. - Oscar Wilde

The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman. - Caroline A Huling