Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, My idleness doth hatch. (Antony and Cleopatra)
Idleness Quotes
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
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.
He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.
Poor Sober! I have often teased him with reproof, and he has often promised reformation; for no man is so much open to conviction as the Idler, but there is none on whom it operates so little. What will be the effect of this paper I know not; perhaps he will read it and laugh, […]
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is […]
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
