Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Idleness Quotes
If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and, in cold, water becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
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.
