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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. By Ovid Idle Love Person Fall

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. By Johann G. Seume Idleness Stupidity Body Mind

How sweet and sacred idleness is! By Walter Savage Landor Sweet Sacred Idleness

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. By Bhartrhari Idleness Mankind Great Enemy Energy

One monster there is in the world, the idle man. By Thomas Carlyle World Man Monster Idle

Idling is not my strong suit. By Cam Gigandet Idling Suit Strong

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Idleness Body Infirmity Mind

motionless, waiting By Nicholson Baker Motionless Waiting

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. By Vladimir Nabokov Dragged Devoid Enchanting Idleness Day

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. By Anne Baxter Idleness Sin Duty Labor Constant

That man is idle who can do something better. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Man Idle

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. By Tom Hodgkinson Idleness Giving Life Spirited Grabbing

In idleness there is a perpetual despair. By Thomas Carlyle Despair Idleness Perpetual

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain. By Carlos Ruiz Zafon Spirit Idleness Dulls Brain Busy

Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle. By Evangeline Lilly Weeks Resting Accomplishing Sewing Shirt

The frivolous work of polished idleness. By James Mackintosh Idleness Frivolous Work Polished

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it. By Helen Cresswell Devil Idle Work

Idleness is an enemy of the soul. By Benedict Of Nursia Idleness Soul Enemy

Put money in your idle hole. By P.j. Harvey Put Hole Money Idle

Idleness is the enemy of the soul. By Anselm Of Canterbury Idleness Soul Enemy

Writing is busy idleness. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Writing Idleness Busy

An idle mind is just a playground, a place to roam and play and discover. By Dina Santorelli Playground Discover Idle Mind Place

An idle life cannot be pure. By Anton Chekhov Pure Idle Life

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. By John Quincy Adams Idleness Sweet Cruel Consequences

The idle man is the devil's cushion. By Joseph Hall Cushion Idle Man Devil

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently. By Haruki Murakami Intently Slowly

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. By John Lubbock Rest Idle Man Enjoy Earned

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Faults Idleness Excuse Easily

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering By Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann Idlers Idle Leisure Find Time

I would rather be sick than idle. By Seneca The Younger Idle Sick

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. By Albert Camus Idleness Mediocre Fatal

Idleness only leads to bad deeds By Magnus Stenbock Idleness Deeds Leads Bad

Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness By Miguel De Molinos God Thou Fract Bernard Silence

If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting ... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all. By Alison Mosshart Painting Party Floor Lots People

Busy idleness urges us on. By Horace Busy Idleness Urges

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. By Natalie Clifford Barney Idleness Thought Falls Ripe Fruit

Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing ... although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. By Will Self Wanted Philosopher World Idlest Idleness

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness By Sunday Adelaja Joblessness Idleness Necessarily

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. By Elizabeth Von Arnim Grow Idle Soul Time

An idle life always produces varied inclinations. By Lucan Inclinations Idle Life Produces Varied

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. By Victor Hugo Idleness Mother Robbery Hunger Son

Idleness is the great plague of India. By Mahatma Gandhi India Idleness Great Plague

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. By William Wordsworth Worse Sighs Idle Compassion Ends

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Idle Curiosity People Estimate Fear

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man. By Francis Quarles Idle Purpose Devil Find Thee

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace. By Mary Balogh Despised Idleness Knew Peace Touched

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. By J.g. Holland Idleness Man Sepulchre Living

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness. By Irwin Edman Idleness Outlook Country Lies Quality

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. By John Keats Idle Asleep Saddens Thought Idleness

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. By Jerome K. Jerome Idleness Kisses Stolen Sweet

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. By Jerome K. Jerome Impossible Enjoy Idling Plenty Work

Idleness ruins the constitution By Ovid Idleness Constitution Ruins

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. By E. V. Lucas Idle Women Fewer Men Character

Idleness is only the refuge of weakminds, and the holiday of fools. By Philip Dormer Stanhope Idleness Weakminds Fools Refuge Holiday

One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself. By J.g. Ballard Oneself Great Deal Idle Time

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler By Samuel Johnson Idler Man Hopes

There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast. By Vincent Van Gogh Contrast Idlers Form

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. By Renata Adler People Bored Idle Lot Cruel

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended ... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored ... By Soren Kierkegaard Evil Idleness Root Accustomed Work

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief. By Francis M. Lyman Idleness Mischief Degenerating Dangerous Brain

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? By William Wilberforce Idle Man Health Leisure Instruct

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. By Charles Caleb Colton Pacific Ocean Life Good Evil

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world. By Michael Bassey Johnson World Idle Man

Idleness leads to insolence. By Matshona Dhliwayo Idleness Insolence Leads

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more ... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working. By Betty Field Work Awful Point Idle Rest

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. By Gustav Klimt Late Art Idle Plenty Food

Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise. By Leo Tolstoy Constant Hell Contrary Considered Paradise

An idle head is a boxe for the winde. By George Herbert Winde Idle Head Boxe

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. By H.l. Mencken Offering Worse Idle Occupation People

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! By William Cowper Calls Esteems Idle World Employments

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. By Robert South Impossibilities Idleness Creates People Care

Just because you are idle, don't assume God is. By Max Lucado God Idle Assume

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. By Russell Lynes Wasting Negative Idleness Time Positive

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing. By Henryk Sienkiewicz Greater Idler Volumes Writing Lazybones

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. By Cesare Pavese Idleness Swiftly Makes Hours Years

such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class - the military. By Leo Tolstoy Class Military State Obligatory Irreproachable

Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars. By Philippe Starck Action Form Dreaming Sky Idleness

Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is. By Sharon Salzberg Experience Busy Feelings Unplugging Compulsion

We simply do not value rest. Busyness is lauded, and idleness is of the Devil. By Andrew Gilmore Rest Devil Simply Busyness Lauded

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. By William Cowper Mind Absence Rest Distressed Occupation

The disgruntled are abundant among those who are idle, and to be idle is a matter of choice. By Dee Hock Choice Idle Disgruntled Abundant Matter

Moments spent in idleness were moments left to thought. Moments left to memory. By Renee Ahdieh Left Moments Thought Spent Idleness

Sluggish idlenessthe nurse of sin. By Edmund Spenser Sluggish Sin Idlenessthe Nurse

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions. By Joseph Hall Devil Cushion Ease Good Motions

Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and By Ryszard Kapuscinski Needed Idle Long Visible Superfluous

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Hopes Reason Idleness Deferring Crime

Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul. By Tim Boredom Soul Symptom Apathetic

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing. By Tom Hodgkinson Lennon John Deed Word Greatest

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. By J. Maarten Troost Personally Virtue Regard Idling Civilized

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. By William Wordsworth Golf Idleness Day Spent Round

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. By Henry David Thoreau Idle Money

The idle mind knows not what it wants. By Quintus Ennius Idle Mind

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me. By E.w. Howe Results Shiftless Confused Work Idle

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. By George Borrow Idleness Mischief True Parent Attempt

Idling has always been my strong point. By Jerome K. Jerome Idling Point Strong

She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood. By Clifton Adams Stood Highway Looked Empty Bored

Life stand still here. By Virginia Woolf Life Stand

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. By Alan Bennett Purpose Leisure

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully. By Charlotte Bronte Inactivity Idleness Occupation Faculties Idle

My mind lay limp in an empty world. By Vladimir Nabokov World Mind Lay Limp Empty