Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is… — Kat Edmonson
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon… — John Wycliffe
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. — William Wilberforce
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos.… — Timothy Noah
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing… — Nancy Gibbs
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole… — Charles Duhigg
The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families. — Alan Wilson
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. — John Aubrey
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. — Unknown Author
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do… — Samuel Pepys
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. — Thomas Dekker
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he… — Marc Morial
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. — James Harvey Robinson
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. — Isabel Yosito
My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours. Death never gives… — Wilfred Owen
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
Luck is the idol of the idle. — Proverb
Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue — Jeremy Taylor
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the… — John Smith
The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actuHow these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes… — Rene Auberjonois
DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some… — Ambrose Bierce
Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall. — Ritu Ghatourey
I find work for idle hands — Christon Henry
No matter how busy idle people are, they always find time for everything. — Vikrant Parsai
I'm not too young to try out. Even if I fail, I'm not too young to try again. I'm just too young to stay idle. — Terry Mark

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