Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the… — Joaquin Miller
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. — Criss Jami
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of… — Charles Spurgeon
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. — St. Jerome
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys… — Jean de la Bruyere
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the… — Mark Twain
We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that… — Paul Westerberg
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. — Benjamin Franklin
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… — Noel Gallagher
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. — Paul Getty
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — Khalil Gibran
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for… — Carl Hiaasen
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a… — Tom Hodgkinson
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how… — Thomas Jefferson
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. — Barbara Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than… — Samuel Johnson

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