It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Translation is at best an echo.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

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

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

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

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.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

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

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

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.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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.