Idle Quotes

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

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 by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

It is idle to await unanimity.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

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 others, and his idleness from himself.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

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 is proficient in its use or a novice.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

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 for the Illinois Republican Party.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.