Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Reading solitude idleness a soft and sedentary life intercourse with women and young people these are perilous paths for a young man and these lead him constantly into danger.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Idleness does drive me crazy but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

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.

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.

Yet it is in our idleness in our dreams that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.