Idle Men Quotes

Idle Men Quote of the day

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

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

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.