Saint Jerome Quotes

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

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

I have to keep myself busy all the time.

That man is idle who can do something better.

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.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

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.

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

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.