“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace”
Hesiod
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”
Albert Einstein
“Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“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”
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
