Quotes about Idleness
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
- St. John Chrysostom
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
- Albert Einstein
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
- Henry Ford
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
- Mark Twain
Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.
- Joseph Wirthlin
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
- Samuel Johnson
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
- Hannah More
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
- Victor Hugo
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.
- George Washington
The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
- Barbara Kingsolver