"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, Lavengro

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent." - Buddha

"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, An Autobiography

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair." - Charles Caleb Colton

"That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided." - Horace

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent." - Samuel Johnson

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." - Helen Keller, My Religion

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." - JEROME K. JEROME, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, letter (to James Boswell, 1779)

"Be not solitary, be not idle.
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler."
- SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler

"Lazy people are always wanting to do something." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims

"For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do."
- ISAAC WATTS, Divine Songs for Children

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." - OSCAR WILDE, Intentions, The Critic as Artist