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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 Jean-Baptiste Say Robert Dale Owen Alexander McCall Smith Gustav Mahler Samuel Smiles Eric Idle Matthew Crawford Nick Cave Yip Harburg Jefferson Davis St. Catherine of Siena Aristophanes Noam Chomsky Thomas Pynchon Benjamin Franklin Michael J. Fox Helen Cresswell Veronica Roth John Aubrey St. Jerome Walter Bagehot Henry David Thoreau Tom Hodgkinson Dorothy L. Sayers Quintus Ennius Horace Greeley Tatiana Maslany John Darnielle Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
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

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

21.
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
Charles Spurgeon

22.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Samuel Johnson

23.
Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
Benjamin Franklin

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

28.
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
Matthew Crawford

29.
It is better to be idle than employed in ill.
Norm MacDonald

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

33.
I would rather be sick than idle.
Seneca the Younger

34.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
Mahatma Gandhi

35.
Love does not stay idle.
St. Catherine of Siena

36.
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!
Jean-Baptiste Say

37.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Tatiana Maslany

38.
I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.
Helen Cresswell

39.
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

42.
An idle head is a boxe for the winde.
George Herbert

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

45.
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
George Herbert

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

49.
I am capable of being idle.
Alexander McCall Smith

50.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Samuel Johnson