Idle Quotes

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

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

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

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.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

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

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 call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

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

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Idle time is the devil's play.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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 we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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.