Top 38 Too Much Idleness Quotes
#1. Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
Edmund Burke
#2. National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
Samuel Smiles
#3. Idleness ruins the constitution
Ovid
#4. Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald
#5. Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.
Mike Michalowicz
#7. Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
#8. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
#9. And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
William Shakespeare
#10. Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.
Matthieu Ricard
#12. The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde
#13. So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don't have life; they only refuse to keep breathing!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.
Primo Levi
#16. Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
#18. Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
Karen Allen
#19. Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#21. It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope
#22. Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
Tim Winton
#24. our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders;
Anonymous
#26. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. Proverbs 19:15-16 15 Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry. 16 Keep the commandments and keep your life; despising them leads to death.
Anonymous
#28. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#32. Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
Thomas Jefferson
#33. So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Pliny The Younger
#35. We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#36. My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
Virginia Woolf
#37. the upper classes instinctively abandoned idleness and invented meritocracy lest universal suffrage deprive them of everything they owned.
Thomas Piketty
#38. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
Alexander Pope
