We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.—Joubert.
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.—Voltaire.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.—Bulwer-Lytton.
Idleness.—If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.—Sydney Smith.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.—Spurgeon.
In idleness there is perpetual despair.—Carlyle.
Doing nothing with a deal of skill.—Cowper.
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.—Colton.
The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency to lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.—Dickens.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.—Chesterfield.