The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. Walter Gaston Shotwell
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Samuel Johnson
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most 
brilliant metals. Voltaire
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide. Lord Chesterfield
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time. Sir Matthew Hale
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Ben Franklin
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. George Stillman Hillard
