Idle Quotes

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

That man is idle who can do something better.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

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

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

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

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.