Saint Jerome Quotes

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

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.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Free time is the enemy of progress

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

That man is idle who can do something better.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.