The hardest work is to go idle.
Yiddish Proverb
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Proverb
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
John Lubbock
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
E.V. Lucas
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.
Author Unknown
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
William E. Barrett
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Blaise Pascal
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire