“Idleness is the parent of all psychology”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“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
“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Virginia Woolf
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time”
John Lubbock
