idleness quotes

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.