Idleness Quotes

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
Time Day Nature Lie Clouds Water Sometimes Listening Sky Rest Grass Trees Summer Idleness Across Means Float Waste Waste Of Time Murmur Watching
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Today Time You Procrastination Tomorrow Value Laziness Enjoy Every Seize Never Put True Know Idleness Till True Value Off Moment
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Truth Dreams Sometimes Our Our Dreams Top Idleness
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard
Good Evil Rather Only True Idleness Being Far Root
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth
Day Spent Idleness Golf Round Strenuous
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. George Borrow
Has-Been Dreary Parent Mischief Attempt True Merely Said Idleness Been Itself Very Escape Which Vacuum
A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better. John James Audubon
Work Me Better Drive Few Given Feel Sooner Days Idleness Go Off Them
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
Work Man Intelligence Mind Action Saved Speed Machine Relieved Find About Abruptly Part Perfecting Bound Devices Himself Idleness Material His Hands Anxieties Cannot Which Creating Toil Help Large Large Part Compelled
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. Robert Green Ingersoll
Man Obligation Speak Think Eats Well Idleness Labor Bread Certain Who
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
Home Devil Duty Profit Others Ourselves Distracting Constant Temptation Sin Idleness Labor While
It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.' Charles A. Beard
Sad Work Saying Man Struggle Old Devil Indeed Released Would Atrophy Fact Misfortune Idleness Were According Which Organs Workshop Function Necessity
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly
Living Only Name Idleness Infinite Capacity Coarse Present
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. Ezra Cornell
Mind Rust Like Idleness Iron Human Human Mind
There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed. Farhan Akhtar
Sad Love Mom Me Stress Feelings Nothing Finally Would Never Had Stemmed Put Knew Taking Attention Around Genuinely Idleness Doing Lot Hit Just Depressed Paid Toll Her Phase Loaf
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
Avenue Rather Pursuits Industrial Idleness Labour Closes Accused Accuser Us Hard
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. Hesiod
Work Idleness Disgrace Which
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
Work Love Me Relationship Crazy Respect Too Much Drive Too Has-Been Kind Bad Rather Write Instilled Read Does Idleness Been Than Just Anything Much Acting Ever
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Minds Weak Weak Minds Only Idleness Refuge
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
People Care Idleness Shelter Permission Impossibilities Done Where Anything Cannot Themselves Creates
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
Man Hide Care Poverty Every Others Himself Always Idle Idleness Been His Endeavors Poor Therefore Utmost Every Man
Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future. Sarah Steele
Life Hope Future Waiting School Will Think Once Mine Find Totally Picked Like Academic Comfort Idleness Lot Much Acting Things
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. Thomas Carlyle
Writing Dreadful Idleness Labor
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses. Tim Ferriss
Small Except Idleness Fan Doses
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. Tom Hodgkinson
You Situation Pleasure Boredom Idleness Turn
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. William J. Clinton
People Trapped See Web Self-Doubt Idleness Gnawing Debt Heartbreaking So Many People Enforced Deep Many
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
Love Nature Man Own Neglect Pleasure Faults Wounds Through Pursuit He Failed Idleness His Than Confess Any Which Etc Incapacity Less
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