Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

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
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! — Jean-Baptiste Say
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. — Thomas Brooks
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle — Charles Spurgeon
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. — Jan Schakowsky
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. — George Whitefield
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Idle time is the devil's play, — Mark Dayton
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the… — John Smith
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat. — Jim Hightower
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The… — Charles Caleb Colton
I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle… — Jay Gould
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas. — Philip Kaufman
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone… — Bill Budge
When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles.… — John C. Dvorak
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for… — Franz Karl Achard
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all… — Jupiter Hammon
I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow. — Joe Lando
Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate… — Richard Louv
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. — E. V. Lucas

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