Pastoral Resources

The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.