Robert Stacy McCain Quotes

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

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

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

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

When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

Killing time is not an easy job.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.