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Idle Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
- 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…
- Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices…
- Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
- Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
- All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
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