1.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Polybius
2.
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.
Nick Cave
3.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
Samuel Smiles
4.
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Plato
5.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
Charles Spurgeon
10.
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
Thomas Pynchon
12.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
Lucan
13.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
William Faulkner
14.
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
Socrates
15.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
16.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Homer
17.
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
William Wilberforce
19.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Jonathan Swift
20.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
St. Jerome
22.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Samuel Johnson
24.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
Leo Rosten
25.
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
Yip Harburg
26.
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.
Gustav Klimt
27.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
Plato
30.
And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
31.
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
Walter Bagehot
32.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
Jefferson Davis
34.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
Mahatma Gandhi
36.
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!
Jean-Baptiste Say
40.
Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
Tom Hodgkinson
41.
These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.
Noam Chomsky
43.
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
John Aubrey
44.
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 =
Boris Pasternak
46.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
Horace Greeley
47.
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.
Eric Idle
48.
I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.
John Darnielle
50.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Samuel Johnson