Robert Bellarmine Quotes

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.