Quotes on idleness
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Jerome, St.
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
Unknown, Author
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Ford, Henry
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
Hugo, Victor
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
Lubbock, John
The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.
Shotwell, Walter Gaston
The hardest work is to go idle.
Proverb, Yiddish
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Johnson, Samuel
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Proverb
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
Lucas, E.V.
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
Ruskin, John
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Pascal, Blaise
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
Barrett, William E.