Quotes about Idle

Idle time is the devil's play, Votes: 4

Idle time is the devil's play. Votes: 4

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. Votes: 4

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Votes: 4

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Votes: 4

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Idle hands make fretful minds. Votes: 3

An Idle youth, a needy Age. Votes: 3

Idle man, chases after fairy tales... Votes: 3

Idle hands are the devil's playthings. Votes: 3

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. Votes: 3

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them. Votes: 3

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do. Votes: 3

Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life Votes: 3

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. Votes: 3

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell. Votes: 3

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. Votes: 3

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. Votes: 3

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Votes: 3

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. Votes: 3

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. Votes: 3

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement Votes: 3

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering Votes: 3

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable. Votes: 3

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? Votes: 3

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured. Votes: 3

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery. Votes: 3

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man. Votes: 3

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. Votes: 3

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect. Votes: 3

The devil finds work for idle hands. Votes: 2

That man is idle who can do something better. Votes: 2

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Votes: 2

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. Votes: 2

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Votes: 2

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. Votes: 2

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. Votes: 2

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. Votes: 2

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. Votes: 2

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. Votes: 2

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out. Votes: 2

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. Votes: 2

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. Votes: 2

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. Votes: 2

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. Votes: 2

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. Votes: 2

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Votes: 2

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Votes: 2

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Votes: 2

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Votes: 2

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. Votes: 2

My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle. Votes: 2

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words. Votes: 2

You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers. Votes: 2

In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable. Votes: 2

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. Votes: 2

Love does not stay idle. Votes: 0

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. Votes: 0

I'm not very happy idle. Votes: 0

A truce to idle phrases! Votes: 0

I am capable of being idle. Votes: 0

Be not solitary, be not idle Votes: 0

Busy opinion is an idle fool. Votes: 0

It is idle to await unanimity. Votes: 0

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. Votes: 0

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle. Votes: 0

Poetry should only occupy the idle. Votes: 0

Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone! Votes: 0

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. Votes: 0

An idle life always produces varied inclinations. Votes: 0

The idle brain is the devil's playground. Votes: 0

I would rather be sick than idle. Votes: 0

The idle man is the devil's cushion. Votes: 0

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness Votes: 0

The idle mind knows not what it wants. Votes: 0

I live an idle burden to the ground. Votes: 0

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. Votes: 0

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. Votes: 0

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators. Votes: 0

An idle head is a boxe for the winde. Votes: 0

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts. Votes: 0

The idle always have a mind to do something. Votes: 0

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. Votes: 0

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time. Votes: 0

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. Votes: 0

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle. Votes: 0

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. Votes: 0

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter. Votes: 0

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. Votes: 0

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man. Votes: 0

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend. Votes: 0

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. Votes: 0

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated. Votes: 0

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. Votes: 0

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. Votes: 0

Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest. Votes: 0

I call that man idle who might be better employed. Votes: 0

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. Votes: 0

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. Votes: 0

One monster there is in the world, the idle man. Votes: 0

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you Votes: 0

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle. Votes: 0

It is better to be idle than employed in ill. Votes: 0

The meaning doesn't matterif it's only idle chatterof a transcendental kind. Votes: 0

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient. Votes: 0

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. Votes: 0

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. Votes: 0

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do. Votes: 0

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. Votes: 0

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Votes: 0

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle Votes: 0

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves. Votes: 0

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. Votes: 0

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. Votes: 0

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. Votes: 0

There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level. Votes: 0

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! Votes: 0

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. Votes: 0

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. Votes: 0

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. Votes: 0

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. Votes: 0

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. Votes: 0

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them. Votes: 0

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. Votes: 0

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. Votes: 0

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. Votes: 0

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. Votes: 0

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? Votes: 0

You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. Votes: 0

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. Votes: 0

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity. Votes: 0

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. Votes: 0

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. Votes: 0

I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home Votes: 0

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. Votes: 0

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. Votes: 0

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. Votes: 0

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. Votes: 0

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world. Votes: 0

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. Votes: 0

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way. Votes: 0

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. Votes: 0

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. Votes: 0

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. Votes: 0

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. Votes: 0

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought. Votes: 0

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. Votes: 0

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. Votes: 0

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one. Votes: 0

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. Votes: 0

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified. Votes: 0

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Votes: 0

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. Votes: 0

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. Votes: 0

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. Votes: 0

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. Votes: 0

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. Votes: 0

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. Votes: 0

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. Votes: 0

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. Votes: 0

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! Votes: 0

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Votes: 0

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. Votes: 0

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. Votes: 0

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! Votes: 0

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. Votes: 0

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. Votes: 0

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. Votes: 0

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. Votes: 0

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing. Votes: 0

Never let the brain idle. "˜An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's. Votes: 0

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. Votes: 0

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. Votes: 0

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. Votes: 0

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. Votes: 0

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. Votes: 0

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. Votes: 0

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Votes: 0

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. Votes: 0

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. Votes: 0

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' Votes: 0

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. Votes: 0

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame. Votes: 0

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. Votes: 0

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat. Votes: 0

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. Votes: 0

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. Votes: 0

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. Votes: 0

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. Votes: 0

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. Votes: 0

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. Votes: 0

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Votes: 0

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. Votes: 0

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle. Votes: 0

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity. Votes: 0

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. Votes: 0

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! Votes: 0

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Votes: 0

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. Votes: 0

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. Votes: 0

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. Votes: 0

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. Votes: 0

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. Votes: 0

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. Votes: 0

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. Votes: 0

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. Votes: 0

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. Votes: 0

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. Votes: 0

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. Votes: 0

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. Votes: 0

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind. Votes: 0

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. Votes: 0

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Votes: 0

Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm. Votes: 0

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time Votes: 0

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle. Votes: 0

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. Votes: 0

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear. Votes: 0

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products. Votes: 0

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers. Votes: 0

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man. Votes: 0

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle." Votes: 0

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. Votes: 0

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please. Votes: 0

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. Votes: 0

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength. Votes: 0

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Votes: 0

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. Votes: 0

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me. Votes: 0

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. Votes: 0

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages. Votes: 0

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit. Votes: 0

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe? Votes: 0

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. Votes: 0

I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow. Votes: 0

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. Votes: 0

Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months. Votes: 0

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families. Votes: 0

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. Votes: 0

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom. Votes: 0

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them Votes: 0

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk. Votes: 0

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind Votes: 0

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf Votes: 0

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. Votes: 0

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. Votes: 0

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar. Votes: 0

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master Votes: 0

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error. Votes: 0

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. Votes: 0

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. Votes: 0

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them. Votes: 0

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop. Votes: 0

Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs. Votes: 0

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road Votes: 0

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. Votes: 0

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time. Votes: 0

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? Votes: 0

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. Votes: 0

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons. Votes: 0

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for. Votes: 0

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Votes: 0

Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing. Votes: 0

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING = Votes: 0

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind. Votes: 0

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. Votes: 0

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. Votes: 0

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. Votes: 0

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post. Votes: 0

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. Votes: 0

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully. Votes: 0

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech. Votes: 0

I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble. Votes: 0

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop. Votes: 0

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy. Votes: 0

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren. Votes: 0

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. Votes: 0

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber. Votes: 0

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. Votes: 0

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts. Votes: 0

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers. Votes: 0

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. Votes: 0

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. Votes: 0

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level. Votes: 0

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop. Votes: 0

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief. Votes: 0

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor. Votes: 0

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain. Votes: 0

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time. Votes: 0

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. Votes: 0

One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.] Votes: 0

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. Votes: 0

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers." Votes: 0

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston... Votes: 0

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do. Votes: 0

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher. Votes: 0

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings. Votes: 0

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace. Votes: 0

I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world. Votes: 0

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. Votes: 0

Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer. Votes: 0

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving. Votes: 0

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working. Votes: 0

Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement. Votes: 0

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions. Votes: 0

EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will Votes: 0

Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree. Votes: 0

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. Votes: 0

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity. Votes: 0

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle. Votes: 0

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases. Votes: 0

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us. Votes: 0

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above. Votes: 0

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come. Votes: 0

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so. Votes: 0

I 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: 0

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection. Votes: 0

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak. Votes: 0

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities. Votes: 0

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all. Votes: 0

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class. Votes: 0

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. Votes: 0

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery. Votes: 0

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals. Votes: 0

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance. Votes: 0

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance. Votes: 0

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. Votes: 0

When man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns. Votes: 0

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors. Votes: 0

We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful. Votes: 0

When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill! Votes: 0

The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life. Votes: 0

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time. Votes: 0

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. Votes: 0

Put into actions what you dream of achieving. It'll amaze you to discover that you can do more than you ever dream of. Just give it a try! Never be idle, take actions now! Votes: 0

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work. Votes: 0

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. Votes: 0

Thanks be to God, since my leaving 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. Votes: 0

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy. Votes: 0

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death. Votes: 0

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part. Votes: 0

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world. Votes: 0

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions. Votes: 0

Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart. Votes: 0

And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel) Votes: 0

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school. Votes: 0

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God. Votes: 0