Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter… — Gershon Legman
The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life.… — Neale Donald Walsch
These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle. — Noam Chomsky
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance… — Chandra Wilson
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't… — Alan Dershowitz
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and… — Aldo Leopold
Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame. — Waylon Jennings
Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day… — Adam Kinzinger
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part… — Augustus William Hare
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. — Augustus William Hare
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and… — Frank B. Kellogg
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about… — Gustav Klimt
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.… — Charles Caleb Colton
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are… — Evagrius Ponticus
Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy… — Wayne D. Dosick
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a… — Henry Ward Beecher
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare
O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. — William Shakespeare
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… — Mark Twain
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over… — Oscar Wilde
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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