Idleness

[AS. īdelnes.]
The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Syn. -- Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.

Definition: laziness, inaction
Antonyms: action, activity, ambition, busyness, diligence, employment, hustle, industry, labor, occupation, work

Quotes:

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." - Virginia Woolf

"'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." - Isaac Watts

"Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals." - Voltaire

"You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you." - Ben Vereen

"Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table." - Source Unknown

"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone." - Source Unknown

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