Idleness sayings

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◆ People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

- AA Milne99

◆ There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

- Bill Watterson99

◆ Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld99

◆ Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

- St Benedict Of Nursia99

◆ Be not solitary, be not idle

- Robert Burton99

◆ In idleness there is a perpetual despair

- Thomas Carlyle99

◆ Idleness is an appendix to nobility

- Robert Burton99

◆ 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 Borrow99

◆ Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.

- Lew Wallace99

◆ Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel

- John Quincy Adams99

◆ For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...

- George Q Cannon99

◆ Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

- Lord Chesterfield99

◆ Never get out of bed before noon

- Charles Bukowski99