Idleness Quotes

Lazy people are always wanting to do something.

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.

The devil tempts all men, but the idle men tempt the devil.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Millions are idle, but it’s comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.