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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Cyril Connolly

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Franz Kafka

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

Benjamin Franklin

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Benjamin Jowett

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Ezra Cornell

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

Hesiod

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

George H. White

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Thomas Carlyle

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Robert South

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

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

Tim Ferriss

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

Samuel Smiles

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

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

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Eamon de Valera

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Hesiod

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Samuel Smiles