Idleness Quotes

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

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.