Idle Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.