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Idle Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was…
- No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
- That man is idle who can do something better.
- It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
- 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…
- Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
More Idle Quotes
- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand
- Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave
- One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
- To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon
- A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the… — Osbert Sitwell
- Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn
- Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts,… — Wumen Huikai
- True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare