Top Idleness Quotes

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling o...

Idleness Definition

(n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glan...

Time is the pivot of life activities. When you miss a second, you miss a time in your lifetime! Time is undoubtedly the greatest asset one can ever acquire. The ultimate and real time is in the mind....

If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!

Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Env...

if you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The mind never sleeps. Though the body can be idle, there shall always be something for the mind to do! Do something with your mind then!

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths com...

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

If you could not do much in the month of April with five letters, think of what really you can do with the month of May with three letters before you open the door of the month of June with four lette...

Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A so...

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

An idle genius is an oxymoron.

When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our...

I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreami...