“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”
Socrates
“If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
Walter Bagehot
“True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”
William Shakespeare
“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
