“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
“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”
Mark Twain
“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
“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.”
“O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle”
Charles H. Spurgeon
