Wherever you run up against me, Postumus, you call out immediately “How do you?” These are your first words: you say them if you meet me ten times in the course of an hour. Do, indeed I suppose you have nothing to do.
Idleness Quotes
It is better to play than do nothing.
A loafer always has the correct time.
Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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.
Idleness is the parent of all psychology.
Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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.
If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing.
