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Definition of Idleness
Idleness

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Related Definitions:
Being, Condition, Idle, In, Inactivity, Laziness, Of, Or, Quality, That, The, Triviality, Various, Word


Idleness Quotations

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo

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

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

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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Idleness Translations

idleness in German is Faulheit
idleness in Norwegian is lediggang, dovenskap
idleness in Spanish is ociosidad


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