Idleness Quotes:
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
Pliny the Elder
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Samuel Johnson
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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.
Herman Melville