From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active
cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks
have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but
that idle men tempt the devil.--_Colton._
The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency to
lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to
be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to
do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of
tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.--_Dickens._
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of
fools.--_Chesterfield._
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of
wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but
little room for temptation.--_Jeremy Taylor._
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become
broken and his torch extinguished.--_Ovid._
~Ignorance.~--Have the _courage_ to be ignorant of a great number of
things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of
everything.--_Sydney Smith._