Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Ezra Cornell
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Francois Rabelais
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.
Anthony Trollope
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
Julie Burchill
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton