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Unknown Author (top)
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
- Unknown Author
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
- Unknown Author


Victor Hugo (top)
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
- Victor Hugo


St. Jerome (top)
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
- St. Jerome


Samuel Johnson (top)
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- Samuel Johnson
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.
- Samuel Johnson


John Lubbock (top)
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
- John Lubbock


E.V. Lucas (top)
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
- E.V. Lucas


Blaise Pascal (top)
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
- Blaise Pascal


Yiddish Proverb (top)
The hardest work is to go idle.
- Yiddish Proverb


John Ruskin (top)
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
- John Ruskin


Voltaire (top)
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
- Voltaire