Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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 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 allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
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 has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.