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" "Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues" "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time" "Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable" "Idleness is sweet and its consequences are cruel" "We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary." "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless" "Idle hands are the devil's tools" "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged trut"