Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Idleness Quotes
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
That man is idle who can do something better.
Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.
Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, My idleness doth hatch. (Antony and Cleopatra)
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, […]
