Idleness - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356<![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20357<![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20358<![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20359<![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360<![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20361<![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362<![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363<![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364<![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365<![CDATA[A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20366<![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20342<![CDATA[Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20343<![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344<![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345<![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346<![CDATA[A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20347<![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348<![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20349<![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350<![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20351<![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20353<![CDATA[A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20354<![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355<![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20338<![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20339<![CDATA[I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20340<![CDATA[An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20341<![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20328<![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329<![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20330<![CDATA[An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20331<![CDATA[How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20332<![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333<![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334<![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20335<![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20336<![CDATA[That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20337<![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20317<![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20318<![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20319<![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20320<![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20321<![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20322<![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323<![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324<![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20325<![CDATA[Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20326<![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327