Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle… — Barbara Jordan
The idle mind knows not what it wants. — Quintus Ennius
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith… — Ambrose Bierce
Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle… — Samuel Gompers
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. — Ivan Bunin
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He… — Samuel Rutherford
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is… — Jim Elliot
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are… — Gautama Buddha
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

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