"Idleness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mean is this: We are told that idleness is wrong, and that people are happier when they are busy ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay
... only because boredom is worse than pain. It is not that they find any satisfaction in their work; it's only that they find even greater distress in idleness." ...
— The Meaning of Good--A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson
... week, however, impatience to be moving on was beginning to try them far more than their enforced idleness, and many a discussion did they indulge in with reference to their future movements. Numerous and various were the suggestions made by one or other of the party, but, excellent though some of them may have been, on discussion all ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton
... I know they are meaningless, Visions of utter idleness: Nothing was, nor ever will be, Save the hills ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XI, No. 27, June, 1873 • Various
... unjustifiable. They do not know what others do in the way of helping, pleasing, or teaching their race; they will not trouble themselves to inquire. Whoever is not in trade is accused of eating the bread of idleness, of passing a useless existence. Long may it be ere England really ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
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