Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
I am capable of being idle.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
