“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.”
Ovid
“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
“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.”
Anne Baxter
“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult”
Samuel Johnson
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo