“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
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
“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
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
“The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.”
Robert Townsend
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
William Wordsworth
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
