| Author |
Quotes |
| Agatha Christie | I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. |
| Alexander Pope | Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. |
| Alexander Pope | Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. |
| Caius Silius Italicus | Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. |
| Gaelic Proverb | Evil thoughts often come from idleness. |
| Homer | I live an idle burden to the ground. |
| Hosea Ballou | Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. |
| Hosea Ballou | In the diligence of his idleness. |
| James Thomson | Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow. |
| Jean Paul | Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. |
| Jenny Joseph | I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. |
| Jeremy Collier | Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. |
| Jerome K Jerome | Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. |
| John Heywood | What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. |
| Megiddo Message | A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do. |
| Ovidius Naso | Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. |
| Phaedrus | A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness. |
| Robert Burton | For idleness is an appendix to nobility. |
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