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| Idleness Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A wrongdoer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something. | Antoninus | Marcus |
| 2 | Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative. | Author Unknown | |
| 3 | But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on. | Bacon | Francis |
| 4 | Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless. | Ballou | Hosea |
| 5 | That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. | Pliny the Younger | |
| 6 | The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. | Blake | William |
| 7 | Expect poison from the standing water. | Blake | William |
| 8 | Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. | Blavatsky | H |
| 9 | Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any other sort of employment whatsoever. | Burke | |
| 10 | Never do to-day what you can put off till to-morrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. | Burr | Aaron |
| 65 quotations on Idleness |

