Idle Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

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

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

That man is idle who can do something better.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

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

I live an idle burden to the ground.

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

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

Be not solitary, be not idle

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

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

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

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

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.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

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

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

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?

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

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

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

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

I would rather be sick than idle.

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

I am capable of being idle.

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

A truce to idle phrases!

It is idle to await unanimity.

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

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

Love does not stay idle.

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

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

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

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

An idle head is a boxe for the winde.

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