Idle Quotes

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

It is idle to await unanimity.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.