Idle Quotes
438 quotes by 328 authors
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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…
— Socrates
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It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It…
— Muhammad
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
— Socrates
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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…
— Gautama Buddha
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Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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.
— George Canning
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All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
— H. L. Mencken
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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our…
— John Milton
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to…
— Russell Kirk
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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based…
— Errico Malatesta
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There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it…
— Carlo Collodi
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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any…
— C.S. Lewis
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Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A…
— Herbert Hoover
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are…
— Walter E. Williams
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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…
— Samuel Johnson
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No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
— Albert Einstein
Who Wrote These Idle Quotes
328 authors contributed a total of 438 Idle Quotes, led by these top contributors: