"Poetry should only occupy the idle." — Lord Byron

More Idle Quotes

This quote is filed under Idle Quotes, one of 438 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• 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… — Renata Adler
• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because… — Jorge Luis Borges
• I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to… — Jo Brand
• Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois… — 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… — Benjamin Haydon
• A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp,… — Osbert Sitwell
• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and… — William Penn
• Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill… — Wumen Huikai
• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare

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