Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

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

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

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

I am a great one for just taking it easy and lazing around.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

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

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.