Idle Quotes

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.

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

The idle brain is the devil's playground.

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

I would rather be sick than idle.

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

I am capable of being idle.

A truce to idle phrases!

I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

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

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

An idle head is a boxe for the winde.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.