Idle Quotes

438 quotes by 334 authors

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great… — Renata Adler
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… — Jorge Luis Borges
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,… — Jo Brand
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. — Nick Cave
One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to… — Benjamin Haydon
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… — Osbert Sitwell
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best… — Wumen Huikai
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. — Jim Stovall
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,… — George Whitefield
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be… — Eric Hoffer
The idle always have a mind to do something. — Luc de Clapiers
God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. — Ralph Hodgson

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