'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Expect poison from standing water.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.