Idle Quotes

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

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

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

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.

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

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

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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

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.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Idle time is the devil's play.

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

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

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.

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.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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.

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.