Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. — Bill Gates
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest… — William Hazlitt
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices… — Samuel Johnson
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. — Samuel Johnson
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. — Samuel Johnson
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the… — Gautama Buddha
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats
I live an idle burden to the ground. — Homer
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of… — Horace Mann
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,… — John Churton Collins
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more… — Gustave Courbet
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. — Richard Hamming
The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter. — Mose Allison
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I… — Michael Flanders
If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often… — Eric Maisel
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which… — Max Planck
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. — Matthew Arnold
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own… — Theodore Roosevelt
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another,… — Ignatius Loyola
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet

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