Idle Quotes

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

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.

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.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

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

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

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.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

Idle time is the devil's play.

When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

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.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Be not solitary, be not idle

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind