His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Busy idleness urges us on.
Idleness is the great plague of India.