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

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

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

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

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.
Agatha Christie

I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Lizette Woodworth Reese

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

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.
Karen Allen

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Anne Baxter

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton

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

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

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield

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

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Johann G. Seume

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Ezra Cornell

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome

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.
George Borrow