(150 quotes found)
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Virginia Woolf
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“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
“Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”
Dorothy Parker
“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
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare
“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”
Oscar Wilde
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
