Quotes about Idleness
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler
— Samuel Johnson
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
— Aldous Huxley
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
— Andrew Jackson
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
— Winston Churchill
The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not
— Philip Schaff
The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
— John Eldredge
Oblivion here thy wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
— Charles Spurgeon
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
— Victor Hugo
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson