It is in our idleness, in our dreams,
that the submerged truth
sometimes comes to the top.
?Virginia Woolf
You must have been warned against
letting the golden hours slip by. Yes,
but some of them are golden only
because we let them slip.
?Sir James M. Barrie
A nation rushing hastily too and fro,
busily employed in idleness.
?Phaedrus
Idleness is an inlet to disorder,
and makes way for licentiousness.
People who have nothing to do are
quickly tired of their own company.
?Jeremy Collier
Certainly work is not always required of a
man. There is such a thing as a sacred
idleness - the cultivation of
which is now fearfully neglected.
?George MacDonald
Trouble springs from idleness, and
grievous toil from needless ease.
?Benjamin Franklin
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
?Gaelic Proverb
I never remember feeling tired by work,
though idleness exhausts me completely.
?Sherlock Holmes
He does not seem to me to be a free man
who does not sometimes do nothing.
?Marcus Tullius Cicero
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle
is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
?Samuel Johnson
I don't think necessity is the mother of
invention -- invention . . . arises
directly from idleness, possibly also from
laziness. To save oneself trouble.
?Agatha Christie
It is not the hours we put in on the job,
it is what we put into the hours that counts.
?Sidney Madwed
Idleness is many gathered
miseries in one name.
?Jean Paul
The hardest work of
all is to do nothing.
?Proverb
Idleness, like kisses, to be
sweet must be stolen.
?Jerome K. Jerome
A man's real worth is determined
by what he does
when he has nothing to do.
?Megiddo Message
