60 quotes found
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
“According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.”
“How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.”
“Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.”
“Idleness is the holiday of fools.”
“He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.”
“For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.”
“A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”
“More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.”
“It is no rest to be idle.”
“There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.”
“Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.”
“Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”
“The hardest work is to go idle.”
“Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”
“Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.”
“With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.”
“We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient depend...”
“He is idle that might be better employed.”
