A Dandy does nothing.
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Idleness is the key of beggary.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.