Idle Quotes

438 quotes by 328 authors

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
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
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. — Socrates
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. — Albert Einstein

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