What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?

What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

Never get out of bed before noon

Never get out of bed before noon

I live an idle burden to the ground.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,

The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth,
grows torpid.
[Lat., Blandoque veneno
Desidiae virtus read more

Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth,
grows torpid.
[Lat., Blandoque veneno
Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]