| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Det har sagts att sysslolöshet är fadern till alla missdåd, vilket är sant; men missdåd i sig är endast ett försök att fly från det hemska vakum kallat sysslolöshet. | George Borrow (1803-1881) |
| I sysslolösheten finns en oändlig mängd förtvivlan. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Jag kan inte komma ihåg att jag blivit trött av arbete, men sysslolöshet tar musten ur mig. | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| Sysslolöshet är att vara död i lemmarna men levande inuti. | Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) |
| Never get out of bed before noon | Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) |
| Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Idleness is the parent of all psychology | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace | Hesiod |
| Be not solitary, be not idle | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces | George Borrow (1803-1881) |
| Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative | George Borrow (1803-1881) |
| It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness | George Borrow (1803-1881) |
| Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Idleness is an appendix to nobility | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| …for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... | George Q. Cannon (1827-) |
| Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another. | General Lew Wallace (1827-1905) |
| Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |