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Idleness Quotes

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Robert Bellarmine
Temptation, Exposed, Idleness
Saint Robert Bellarmine , Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Robert Bellarmine Collection [3 Books]”, p.1410, Aeterna Press

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

Benedict of Nursia
Soul, Enemy, Idleness

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Parent, Psychology, Idleness

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.

Eliphas Levi
Idleness

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Eamon de Valera
Waste, Inefficiency, Idleness

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Thales
Brightness, Labor, Idleness

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

John Quincy Adams
Sweet, Idleness, Consequence
"Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Suzy Platt, 1992.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates
Evil, Occupation, Idleness
Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mind, Purity, Idleness
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle
Despair, Perpetual, Idleness

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Homer
Burden, Idle, Idleness
Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.290

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Body, Idleness

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Charles Spurgeon
Keys, Beggary, Idleness
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.269, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Walter Savage Landor
Sweet, Sacred, Idleness
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Gustav Mahler
Idle, Remains, Idleness

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Army, Labor, Idleness

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

J. G. Holland
Men, Idleness

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

Hesiod
Disgrace, Idleness
Hesiod, Thomas Alan Sinclair (1966). “Works and Days”, p.29, Georg Olms Verlag

Busy idleness urges us on.

Horace
Busy, Urges, Idleness
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Psychology, Vices, Idleness

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Faults, Excuse, Idleness

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

William Faulkner
Virtue, Idleness

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

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

Thomas Carlyle
Writing, Labor, Idleness
Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive

Idleness is paralysis.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Paralysis, Idleness

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