I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography¹, 1977

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Floyd Dell

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay² are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Decorum

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

Indolence is a delightful³ but distressing⁴ state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters

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

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

Never be entirely⁵ idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating⁶ or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)

He that is busy is tempted⁷ by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)