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Idle Quotes

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

Authors on Idle Quotes: George Herbert Charles Spurgeon Plato Samuel Johnson Horace Greeley Tatiana Maslany Quintus Ennius John Darnielle Robert Louis Stevenson Wilhelm von Humboldt Norm MacDonald Seneca the Younger Lucan Leo Rosten Ralph Waldo Emerson Jonathan Swift Robert Burton William Faulkner Fyodor Dostoevsky Socrates Boris Pasternak Gustav Klimt Polybius Homer Mahatma Gandhi William Wilberforce Jean-Baptiste Say Robert Dale Owen Alexander McCall Smith Gustav Mahler Samuel Smiles Eric Idle Matthew Crawford
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

6.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau

7.
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Quintus Ennius

8.
That man is idle who can do something better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
Michael J. Fox

10.
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
Thomas Pynchon

11.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

12.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
Lucan

13.
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
Socrates

14.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
William Faulkner

15.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Homer

16.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler

17.
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
William Wilberforce

18.
Be not solitary, be not idle
Robert Burton

19.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Jonathan Swift

20.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Samuel Johnson

21.
Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
Benjamin Franklin

22.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
Leo Rosten

23.
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
Yip Harburg

24.
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

25.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
Plato

26.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
St. Jerome

27.
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
Charles Spurgeon

28.
It is better to be idle than employed in ill.
Norm MacDonald

29.
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

30.
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
Matthew Crawford

31.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
Mahatma Gandhi

32.
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
Walter Bagehot

33.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
Jefferson Davis

34.
I would rather be sick than idle.
Seneca the Younger

35.
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
George Herbert

36.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
Horace Greeley

37.
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

38.
I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.
John Darnielle

39.
I am capable of being idle.
Alexander McCall Smith

40.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Samuel Johnson

41.
A truce to idle phrases!
Aristophanes

42.
It is idle to await unanimity.
Robert Dale Owen

43.
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
Dorothy L. Sayers

44.
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
Veronica Roth

45.
Love does not stay idle.
St. Catherine of Siena

46.
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!
Jean-Baptiste Say

47.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Tatiana Maslany

48.
I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.
Helen Cresswell

49.
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

50.
Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
Tom Hodgkinson