Idleness Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The insupportable labour of doing nothing.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) English essayist, dramatist, editor
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman, actor
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) British critic
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters Laziness.
Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
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.
James M. Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?
W H. Davies (1871-1940) British poet
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, illustrator
A loafer always has the correct time.
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist
Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) British author
Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, Leaving work alone.
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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
