To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 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.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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 allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.