Joseph Hall Quotes

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

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.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

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

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

He's made an art form out of doing nothing.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.