How To Use Idleness In A Sentence

I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
Boats fostered unusually intimate encounters because of the enforced idleness of travel and because of their physical isolation.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).

I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
But I saw that fiction--he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous--is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
After a period of enforced idleness, she found a new job.
It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . . A Renegade History of the United States
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
Idleness is the root of all evil.
'She can't keep her attention fixed on anything, not even on her prayers, and what she calls piety I should call idleness. The Lake
This feeling is our superessential blessedness, which is a fruition of God and all His beloved: and this blessedness is that Dark Quiet which ever abides in idleness. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
Idleness," says Burton, in that delightful old book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ... How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
Like rustiness, idleness consume more body energies than work.
Nicephorus and Leo, triumphed over the Saracens, the hours which the emperor owed to his people were consumed in strenuous idleness. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Golf, now justly cried down by our laws, {2} as the mother of cursing and idleness, mischief and wastery, of which game, as I verily believe, the devil himself is the father. A Monk of Fife
'In the meane space,' he continues, 'for the avoyding of idlenesse (the very mother and nourice of all vices) I have among other my travayles bene occupied aboute thys little Treatyse, wherein is sette forth the vilenesse and basenesse of worldely things whiche commonly withdrawe us from heavenly and spirituall matters.' A Biography of Edmund Spenser
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness. Half a Rogue
He constantly pondered upon the possibilities through which his friend might be freed from the shackles that bound him to the effeminate serfdom of idleness; but the magic that could unrivet those fetters had not yet been revealed. Fairy Fingers A Novel
For instance, hundreds of thousands of non-British Canadians, who suffered in undeserved idleness during ten depression years, are today enjoying full employment, their labour earnestly courted by the nation at war. Canada and Immigration
They thought that it sufficed for a prince to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor Winner Takes All
While composing a letter on a computer you may interrupt the computer's rest with a short burst of key pounding and then let it return to idleness as you compose the next sentence.
idleness is the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
The ancestors of modern professors, humanists tried to reconcile (intellectual) labor with the cultivation of idleness based on classical paradigms.
Idleness," he says, "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal .... Character
[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
'Hours of Idleness' -- a title henceforth associated with Byron's early poems -- was printed and published by S. and J. Ridge of Newark, and was sold by the following London booksellers: Crosby and Co. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
Ulysses cannot abide the idleness of age and continues to reflect: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
Why should they when a biased legal system will reward their idleness? Times, Sunday Times
Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work. The Living Present
Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of this and many other maladies, the devil's cushion, as [1540] Gualter calls it, his pillow and chief reposal. Anatomy of Melancholy
He speaks of remorse/[Page xxviii]/for not succeeding better in his work, remorse for idleness when he was resting: of his lecturing he says: "my sorrow in delivery was less, my remorse after delivery was much greater"; and when writing the 'Jane Welsh Carlyle' paper, being interrupted by Froude, he says: "Froude is now coming, and with remorse New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
The crowded huts, the waiting for food handouts, the idleness are steadily taking their toll.
For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.
He looked around, marveling at the idleness of the people around him.
Large-flowered modern varieties are the result of hybridising the wild pansy, viola tricolor, also known as love-in-idleness, kiss-me-quick and heartsease.
Jobless after he went home, the unendurable idleness led him back to his old "friends," with whom he first took drugs.
We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.” A Renegade History of the United States
This remained the case through to William Beveridge, whose declamation of the five evils of ‘Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness’ would be almost unthinkable now.
It might now be proper, had not the favour with which it was at first received filled the kingdom with copies, to reprint it with notes partly supplemental and partly emendatory, to subjoin those discoveries which the industry of the last age has made, and correct those mistakes which the author has committed not by idleness or negligence, but for want of Boyle's and Newton's philosophy. Christian Morals
Idleness enervates the will to succeed.
If he fail to do this, the rust of idleness eats into all his powers, till he becomes a useless cumberer of the ground; the world loses, and heaven gains nothing when this mortal puts on immortality. The Elements of Character
Then there is the deep-rooted fear of idleness.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Albert Camus
It seems to be tied up with a rather Victorian work ethic where poor people are demonised for idleness and deserve their fate.
They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.” George Washington’s First War
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
Cujusque ferae pabulum, saith [1748] Seneca, impatient of heat and cold, impatient of labour, impatient of idleness, exposed to fortune's contumelies. Anatomy of Melancholy
Two weeks of this enforced idleness nearly kills me.
In their own ennui of the day, they passed their idleness with staring out the window to spy Elizabeth's coming from the back lawns accompanied by two gentlemen.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
Idleness is the rust of mind.
Idleness turns the edge of wit.
They may produce what they call idleness now, and a great deal of vexation and suffering. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
When she was ready to go up to Muro, she knew that without those letters life in such a solitude would be well nigh unsupportable, whereas, being able to look forward to them, and to answering them, her hours of idleness were already a foretasted pleasure. Taquisara
I am sitting here reading a speech by a Grammar School HeadMaster in 1948 slamming the 'sheer idleness and sloppiness' of the young, their 'lack of moral fibre', their 'unruliness'. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
We ourselves are often guilty of worse idleness. Christianity Today
Why should they when a biased legal system will reward their idleness? Times, Sunday Times
They ate very simply, but she liked to take a long time to buy the few things they needed; she could not be bothered to cook anything for her dinner, hut made herself some cocoa and ate bread and butter; then she took the baby out in the gocart, and when she came in spent the rest of the afternoon in idleness. Of Human Bondage
Idleness is the root of all evil.
When asked how he would cure what he described as a "sickness", one of David Cameron's key suggestions was "a welfare state that doesn't reward idleness". The Guardian World News
Shameless idleness is no bar to sailing when you've got a crew aboard. Times, Sunday Times
This feeling is our superessential blessedness, which is a fruition of God and all His beloved: and this blessedness is that Dark Quiet which ever abides in idleness. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. Oscar Wilde
‘It's about idleness and sloth, and not getting out there and bringing in fresh, exciting stories,’ he says.
The week has been an odd mix of haste and idleness.
It requires the income derived from £2,000 in gilt edged securities to maintain a family in idleness. Population Problems
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
The harshness of recent reality disentranced him from his idleness.
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
Whoever enquires, as I have frequently done, from those who have asked me an alms; what was their former course of life, will find them to have been servants in good families, broken tradesmen, labourers, cottagers, and what they call decayed house-keepers; but (to use their own cant) reduced by losses and crosses, by which nothing can be understood but idleness and vice. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
Demoralising idleness and the humiliation of charity or relief work left the unemployed dispirited, apathetic, or divided.
Idleness is the root of all evil.
For idleness does, in all cases, inevitably rot, and become putrescent; - and I say deliberately, the very Devil is in it.
Jobless after he went home, the unendurable idleness led him back to his old ‘friends,’ with whom he first took drugs.
Thus may you helpe to driue idlenesse the mother of most mischiefs out of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then all the golde of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Idleness is the parent of all vice.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
Pretending idleness - nothing new - I found that Tachnadray listed umpteen McGunns, plus one ectopic: plain James Wheeler. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Oberon resolves to defeat her by applying the magic juice of a flower, love-in-idleness, to her eyes as she sleeps, which will make her fall in love with the next creature she sees: he sends Robin to fetch it.
Ambition is madness; and desire of distinction is criminal vanity; and glory is bosh; and fair fame is idleness; and nothing is true but two and two; and the color of all the world is drab; and all men are equal; and one man is as tall as another; and one man is as good as another — and a great dale betther, as the Irish philosopher said. Roundabout Papers
She had sedulously filled it with occupations, and her occupations had proved fertile in keeping her mind from idleness, and in restoring it to chearfulness. Cecilia
Good luck is kind and generous to diligence, knowledge and wisdom & idleness, ignorance and stupidity will invite bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. Lord Chesterfield
Another trouble that results from this is, that the Indians, who are naturally prone to idleness, easily earn enough with which to pay the tribute and buy stuffs from the Chinese with which to clothe themselves, and so do not manufacture these. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Hatching a plan to win the Indian boy, Oberon sends Puck in search of a flower called love-in-idleness.
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
I don't have much to do at work, which leads to long periods of idleness.
My own work has proceeded in fits and starts throughout the holiday, with long intervals of idleness in between.
But Scripture saith an ending to all fine things must be," and the friends of this jovial young "buckeen" began to tire of his idleness and his recurrent visits. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series
Her ineffectiveness is bad enough, but her idleness on this issues is destructive. Muhlenberg Hospital to close
We are far enough, in this case, from that mendicity which is understood as a means of existence and the essential condition of a life of idleness. Life of St. Francis of Assisi
There is a grossness in the conceptions of my countrymen; they will not be convinced that any good thing may consist with what they call idleness; they can anticipate nothing but evil of a young man who neither studies physic, law, nor gospel, nor opens a store, nor takes to farming, but manifests an incomprehensible disposition to be satisfied with what his father left him. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reas the bonder himself, who had many a time flogged him for his disobedience and idleness, and who now watched him riding downward to the ships, did not recognize his former bondslave in the handsome and gaily attired young warrior. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age
Years of comparative idleness enabled him to write and revise the Arcadia, and to complete the Defence of Poetry, The Lady of May, and Astrophel and Stella.
They were condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at that lonely island.
A young man who goes from the ploughtail into the army is generally rather thoughtless and disposed to idleness. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
Poverty is the reward of idleness.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
Siberia, idleness depraves people, and often calls forth ugly feelings toward life. Mother
I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
Jobless after he went home, the unendurable idleness led him back to his old ‘friends,’ with whom he first took drugs.
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
The play's joke is that, while under the influence of the drug love-in-idleness, Titania cannot see just how bestial, how ridiculous, how mortal - in short, how ‘gross’ - Bottom has become.
K. is bosh; I have no use for him; but we must do what we can with the fellow meanwhile; he is good-humoured and honest, but inefficient, idle himself, the cause of idleness in others, grumbling, a self-excuser — all the faults in a bundle. Vailima Letters
It ruins cities, depopulates fields, condemns men to idleness and want, and the only remedy it knows for the evils which it brings upon man is to shorten the miseries of its victims by giving pestilence and famine the most ample commission to destroy their lives. Hannibal Makers of History
We ourselves are often guilty of worse idleness. Christianity Today
Poverty is the reward of idleness.
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
Winter, by contrast, meant long periods of enforced idleness for a vast pool of casual labour.
He calls him "wicked servant," because he cavilled against his Lord; and "slothful," because he would not double his talent; condemning his pride in the one, and his idleness in the other. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
Based on this dubious proposition, the researchers bizarrely advocate what they call "futile busyness, namely, busyness serving no purpose other than to prevent idleness. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Spain the men, however poor, have a gentleman-like abundance of leisure, seeming to consider it the attribute of a true cavaliero never to be in a hurry; but the Andalusians are gay as well as leisurely, and have none of the squalid accompaniments of idleness. The Alhambra
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is the rust of the mind.
While composing a letter on a computer you may interrupt the computer's rest with a short burst of key pounding and then let it return to idleness as you compose the next sentence.
Idleness not being subsidized and substance not being wasted, more was produced and the general well-being would thus be raised.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
Sir Julius Cæsar, prefixed to the first-named work, the writer speaks of having "once belonged to the _Innes of Court_," and says he was "no usuall poetizer, but, to barre idlenesse, imployed that little talent the Muses conferr'd upon him in this little tract. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
And don't you love the fact that another name for pansy is ‘love-in-idleness’?
The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness.
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
Idleness: to be overcome by government policies that ensure meaningful work for all individuals.
Idleness is the key of beggary.
Idleness is the parent of all vice.
Some, indeed, before their liberation, have conceived of idleness as a kind of synonyme with happiness; but a short experience has never failed to prove it no less remote from that desirable state. Lectures on Art
Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson
My own work has proceeded in fits and starts throughout the holiday, with long intervals of idleness in between.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
Idleness: to be overcome by government policies that ensure meaningful work for all individuals.
Thus may you helpe to driue idlenesse the mother of most mischiefs out of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then all the golde of Peru, and of all the West The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
Cousin german to idleness, and a concomitant cause, which goes hand in hand with it, is [1558] nimia solitudo, too much solitariness, by the testimony of all physicians, cause and symptom both; but as it is here put for a cause, it is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary. Anatomy of Melancholy
Everything seemed to go on as usual in the quiet, opulent house; the good-natured mistress pursuing, quite unsuspiciously, her bustling idleness, and daily easy avocations; the daughter absorbed still in one selfish, tender thought, and quite regardless of all the world besides, when that final crash came, under which the worthy family fell. Vanity Fair
The Roman Catholic Church, which, like Nietzsche, knows something about conviction, has a name for this apathy: acedia, which is laziness of spirit, idleness of soul.
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
Conservative propagandists have sold taxpayers on the notion that welfare recipients are ingrates dependent on wasteful programs perpetuating idleness.
Really idle I mean, none of your namby-pamby idleness.
We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man, for vice and crime follow in its train.
At present the surra is misapplied, and serves only to feed a swarm of persons in a state of complete idleness, while the poor are left destitute, and not the smallest encouragement is given to industry. Travels in Arabia
Large-flowered modern varieties are the result of hybridising the wild pansy, viola tricolor, also known as love-in-idleness, kiss-me-quick and heartsease.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
I promise to practice good manners and good behaviour and not to lead a life of idleness.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
I would like to say a word on behalf of Idleness - pure, unadulterated indolence, unalloyed by even the slightest tinge of Purpose or Usefulness.
A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me.
I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
Eugene Debs, the principal leader of the Socialist Party at the turn of the century, declared it his mission to “plant benevolence in the heart of stone, instill the love of sobriety into the putrid mind of debauchery, and create industry out of idleness.” A Renegade History of the United States
Inclination to idleness, which public institutions have fostered among certain nations, not only binds men, but also fetters fortunes.
There we all clambered out to stretch cramped muscles and make a fire to cook the hippo's tongue, Coutlass cursing us for letting what he called idleness come between us and revenge. The Ivory Trail
Idleness turns the edge of wit.
We became suspended in some stately never-never land of pleasure, luxury and idleness.
Why should they when a biased legal system will reward their idleness? Times, Sunday Times
Young George was of so unsettled a disposition," says Smith, "that his father, being fully aware of his extraordinary talents, was determined to force him to get his own living, and gave him a guinea, with something like the following observation: 'I am _determined_ to encourage your idleness no longer; there -- take that guinea, and apply to your art and support yourself.' Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
It's been a day for idleness, for loafing about, for lounging, dozing, snacking and dozing some more.
The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
He starts by saying that during a period of idleness, he began looking for a ship to crew.
Then there is the deep-rooted fear of idleness.
The men, like stall-fed beasts, spurred themselves by the prospect of eating and idleness, and we were soon at the beach. Montlivet
(mixed Lydian and Hypolydian) with drunkenness, effeminacy, and idleness and considers that such music is "useless even to women that are to be virtuously given, not to say to men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
Poverty is the reward of idleness.
Only the intrusions of his neighbour, Mrs Mac, detract from a life of idleness.
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
This busy idleness is our undoing.
Today, the hymning of mental frailty has significantly reduced the stigma of idleness.
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
His idleness, deviancy and lack of shame was far more deeprooted than that. The Sun
The point is only that the explanatory idleness of my belief does not constitute any kind of defeater for it -- because it isn't accepted as an explanation. Warranted Christian Belief
The night wasn't totally spent in idleness.
No player finds comfort in a prolonged period of idleness and Khizanishvili unloaded his frustration onto his agent, who in turn sought an explanation from McLeish.
Mu’ezzin is preferred, and many ridiculous stories are told about men who for years have counterfeited cecity to live in idleness [.] 61 I have illustrated this chapter, which otherwise might be unintelligible to many, by a plan of the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Why doth one of you spend his time in idleness and folly, and wasting of precious time, perhaps debauchedly? Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man, for vice and crime follow in its train.
Poverty is the reward of idleness.
The subject of the poem is thus fairly straightforward: the creative fecundity of idleness in nature.
Look up that invaluable book, Scots Thesaurus, and you will find four or five pages given over to words denoting idleness and laziness, all contemptuous.
In other words, no individual should be wasted in idleness if they wish to be employed into the safety net program. Pavlina R. Tcherneva: Women Want Jobs, Not Handouts
Good luck is kind and generous to diligence, knowledge and wisdom & idleness, ignorance and stupidity will invite bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
Secular idleness would have little meaning in solitude, and the religious contemplation of the hermit or monk is not in question here.
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. Lord Chesterfield
Being condemned on account of their riches to a life of idleness which is repugnant to human nature, the majority of them enjoy neither physical nor moral health.
When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. A History of English Prose Fiction
It's shorthand for creativity/idleness, relaxation/nervousness, seduction / post-coital bliss, and a host of other contradictory cinematic moods.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
Idleness rusts the mind.

How To Use Idleness In A Sentence

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