Idle Quotes

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

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

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

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

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.

Idle time is the devil's play.

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

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

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

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

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.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

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.

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

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

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.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

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

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

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.