“Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.”
Mark Twain
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could”
Jeremy Taylor
“…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...”
George Q. Cannon
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
Thomas Carlyle
