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Idleness Quotes - Page 2

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Robert Pollok
Indolence, Enjoyment, Idleness
Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

Magnus Stenbock
Historical, Deeds, Idleness

Communism is the flower of idleness.

George Ticknor
Flower, Communism, Idleness

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Charles Baudelaire
Men, Hideous, Idleness

Idleness is the great plague of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Plague, Idleness
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Tim Ferriss
Fans, Dose, Idleness

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

Russell Lynes
Negative, Wasting Time, Idleness

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Pope Paul VI
Christian, Boredom, Idleness

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Ovid
Love Is, Born, Idleness
Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.203, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Idleness ruins the constitution

Ovid
Ruins, Constitution, Idleness

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
Tears, Wonder, Idleness
Lizette Woodworth Reese (1928). “Lizette Woodworth Reese ...”

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Lawrence Durrell
Secret, Approach, Idleness
Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.17, Faber & Faber

Writing is busy idleness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing, Busy, Idleness
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

Idleness induces caprice.

James Russell Lowell
Caprice, Idleness

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Hesiod
Shame, Idleness

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

Helen Cresswell
Devil, Idle, Idleness

A Dandy does nothing.

Charles Baudelaire
Doe, Dandy, Idleness
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Benjamin Franklin
Spring, Trouble, Idleness
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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