A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Votes: 4
Khalil GibranAs we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinIt is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell. Votes: 3
Henry ReedIdle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. Votes: 3
Arthur RimbaudIdle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. Votes: 3
Susan ErtzIdle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Votes: 3
Charles BradlaughIdle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. Votes: 3
Isabel YositoI listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. Votes: 3
Lana Del ReyPatience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. Votes: 2
Barbara JohnsonRegrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. Votes: 2
Charles Dudley WarnerReputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareAs much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. Votes: 2
William WilberforceAlways plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out. Votes: 2
Henry J. HeinzIf a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. Votes: 2
Albrecht DurerAs peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. Votes: 2
Samuel JohnsonIt is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. Votes: 2
Bryant H. McGillWhen the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. Votes: 2
Yip HarburgLook At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. Votes: 2
Bill GatesLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Votes: 2
Samuel JohnsonIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinImagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. Votes: 0
James Van FleetSome temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonFortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. Votes: 0
Gustav MahlerLove is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWhat's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? Votes: 0
Veronica RothThe factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity. Votes: 0
David RicardoMost women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. Votes: 0
Octave FeuilletPurification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. Votes: 0
Nancy SpainInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowWhere Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. Votes: 0
Horace GreeleyThese are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. Votes: 0
John DrydenA Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. Votes: 0
Walter BagehotThe busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinOur Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerMathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. Votes: 0
Richard HammingMan is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought. Votes: 0
David O. McKayCan there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauAs a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. Votes: 0
Jan SchakowskyI don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one. Votes: 0
John DarnielleSilence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. Votes: 0
James HerveyIt is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified. Votes: 0
Santiago Ramon y CajalHe who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. Votes: 0
John KeatsIf history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. Votes: 0
PolybiusNot to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. Votes: 0
HoraceHistory is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. Votes: 0
Gore VidalHow these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. Votes: 0
John AubreyAll the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. Votes: 0
John LubbockThey are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. Votes: 0
SocratesHow these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! Votes: 0
John AubreyI have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. Votes: 0
Emily BronteHow idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. Votes: 0
Augustus William HareRaking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. Votes: 0
Armand HammerI'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing. Votes: 0
Harlan CobenWhen the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. Votes: 0
E. Y. HarburgAnd as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanI was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonThe sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergTrue, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. Votes: 0
Vincent MasseyI'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' Votes: 0
Harlan CobenThe bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. Votes: 0
PlatoNo matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonO, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThere is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. Votes: 0
George WhitefieldNo man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultMoney is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. Votes: 0
Jim StovallI have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment. Votes: 2 Susanna Clarke
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. Votes: 2 Gore Vidal
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Votes: 3 Isaac Watts