Idle Youth Quotes

You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

The fry of wandering beggars that grow up idly and hurtfully and burdenous to the Realm, might be unladen and better bred up.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

That’s why these kids get into so much trouble. They don’t have anything to do.

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?