Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
Idleness breeds our better virtues.
There is nothing more dangerous than idleness. . . In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.
Busy idleness urges us on.
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 a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.